Dear all

To celebrate leaving prep school my son Jack and 15 of his friends are cycling 112 miles over three days from Gt Yarmouth around the Norfolk coastline and are dragging their fathers along with them. They are doing this in aid of much less privileged indigenous children in Peru supported and educated to meet the challenges of the modern and Westernised world by the wonderful Amantani charity 9See below).

I haven't ridden a bicycle more than 10 miles over the past 30 years so you have a good chance of keeping your money. Please support a good cause by sponsoring a lost cause!

Yours ever,

Julian & Jack Polhill

About the charity

Amantani UK was set up to protect the rights and interests of some of South America’s most vulnerable children. Using education, we aim to help indigenous children negotiate with modern Peru’s westernized system.

Rather than spreading our work across a continent or even a country, Amantani UK invests resources and time into making fundamental change in one district; Ccorca, which is situated 13 miles from Cusco, Peru.

Since May 2008, Amantani UK have run two boarding schools in the district’s capital. Our two projects help over 40 girls who previously had to walk up to 6 hours to get to and from school each day. In the morning, the girls attend the district’s state-provided school. In the afternoon, instead of walking home, they come to our nearby boarding schools for extra tuition in skills suited to their situation. For more information, please visit www.amantani.org.uk.