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Updated on May 26th 2011 at 3:19 PM from the JustGiving API

£10 to go to hit the £1000 target. Thanks everyone.

Updated on May 26th 2011 at 3:18 PM from the JustGiving API

IBA have certified my ride. Only £10 off my fundraising target!

Left on Friday morning at 5.30am and completed the 835 miles in 16 hours and returned home at 21.30pm Friday night. Travelled from Coleraine to Clifden to Killarney to Cork to Wexford to Ballycastle and back to Coleraine.... Who is Habitat for Humanity? Habitat for Humanity’s vision "is of a world where housing poverty and homelessness have been eliminated, and everyone has a safe, decent place to live; a place that they can call ‘home’, because we believe that the home is a key catalyst in helping to permanently break the cycle of poverty." While the organisation is based on the Christian principle of being on the side of the poor and vulnerable, they build houses without selecting the homepartners based on their faith and they will work with anyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. Habitat for Humanity works all over the world, in fact, one Habitat for Humanity house is completed somewhere in the world every 8 minutes!   Habitat for Humanity International builds, rehabilitates and repairs simple, decent houses with the help of homeowners, known as partner families, volunteer labor, and donations of money and materials. Often, skilled personnel such as masons and carpenters are employed for specialist jobs. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and are financed through affordable long-term loans. Mortgage lengths vary from four to 30 years, though most are around six to eight years. Monthly mortgage payments go into a local revolving fund to be used to build still more Habitat homes. In short, Habitat for Humanity is not a “giveaway” program My friends have been involved with Habitat building projects in Belfast, Ethiopia and Romania and are now planning a project in India.  Your money will be allocated to the Open India Team. So what am I doing?  What's my challenge? I wanted to help them and put out a couple of motorcycle challenges to my peers and asked them to vote on which would present the greater challenge.  The majority decided that the IBA Circuit of Ireland would be the harder challenge of the two.  The IBA (Iron Butt Association) is a group of motorcyclists "dedicated to the sport of long distance motorcycle touring".   The challenge is to ride a complete circuit of Ireland in under 24 hours and pass their verification process by producing witness statements and stamped and dated receipts from each of the 5 towns I must visit.  Total mileage should be approx 850 miles. Hopefully I'll manage it (without developing an iron butt) and hopefully you'll dig deep! For more info on Habitat for Humanity vist: <a href="http://www.habitat.org/eurasia/">http://www.habitat.org/eurasia/</a> Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

Iron Butt Circuit of Ireland in aid of Habitat for Humanity

Iron Butt Circuit of Ireland in aid of Habitat for Humanity

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