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80 Mile Cycle

Brendan Harley is raising money for The Turning Point Trust
“Brendan Harley's fundraising”

on 12 July 2011

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The Turning Point Trust is a fantastic charity working with street-children and their families in Kibera slum, Kenya. We believe in working to meet the needs of individual children and supporting people to become the instigators of their own success.

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<p><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> <!--StartFragment--> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; line-height: 16.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #151515;" lang="EN-US">The Turning Point Trust&nbsp;is a fantastic charity working with street-children and their families in Kibera slum, Kenya. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #381c12;" lang="EN-US">Kibera is a mass of humanity living in appalling conditions. Rubbish and raw sewage run down the lanes, families live in single mud-rooms with leaky tin roofs, and crime and insecurity are rife. Children live in appalling conditions with nothing but poverty, hunger and disease.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; line-height: 16.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #381c12; font-family: Arial; line-height: 16px;">Turning Point's mission is to acquire farming land in Kinangop,&nbsp;to&nbsp;give widowed mums and their children the chance to escape the harsh realities of slum life and&nbsp;establish a new, independent, sustainable life&nbsp;through learning to farm.&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; line-height: 16.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #381c12; font-family: Arial; line-height: 16px;">I have entered a cycling event to raise money to help Turning Point continue their incredible work. &nbsp;I am cycling over 80 miles on the 14th of August to help raise enough money for Turning Point to acquire a farm for Zipporah and her children to escape the slums and live an independent, sustainable life.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #381c12;" lang="EN-US">I am not a cyclist, so I have dusted off &nbsp;the bike, been getting up early to cycle and get fit to have any chance of completing the distance. This is a real challenge I would be very grateful for your support to help with this incredible project and help change a family's life.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">&nbsp;</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Donation summary

Total
£540.00
+ £80.00 Gift Aid
Online
£400.00
Offline
£140.00

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