Thanks for taking a moment to visit my JustGiving page for the Vodafone Foundation Lesotho project.

By some twist of fate I have been successful in obtaining a place with the Vodafone team who will be Riding Across Britain this September.  By Riding Across Britain I am referring to 969 miles UP from Land’s End to John O’Groats (that’s the hard way). 

Despite being a great experience, this madness will be painful and undoubtedly challenging beyond my imagination and I would like all the encouragement I can get in the form of charitable donations.

Here is the charity bit:

‘Lesotho is a country facing an HIV / AIDS challenge and where there are currently 80,000 adults receiving antiretroviral drugs but only 4,000 children, despite ARVs being available through globally funded programmes.  We want all 41,000 children living with HIV to have access to treatment by 2017. 

The Vodafone Foundation is working with in-country partners to increase the number of children accessing treatment and the first step is to get the children to clinics. Via M-pesa, sending money via the network has become a reality. Our technology will enable children to receive their bus fare to ensure they can attend treatment. It will cost the equivalent of just $65 per child to access treatment over the 3 years of the programme.  We need to raise $8 million to reach our 2017 target and the challenge for Vodafone employees is to raise $1 million of that.’

So, to add to the physical and mental challenge the target I have also been set is to raise £3,000, which works out at aprox £3 / mile.  Please give what you can to this great cause, and don't forget to Gift Aid your donation which will add an additional 25%.

In the meantime I commit to training hard and dreaming of the 7,000 calories needed per day to get me across Britain.

Lizzie

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