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I am joining colleagues across Vodafone and taking part in the Deloitte Ride Across Britain 2014. I will be supporting those colleagues and the work of the Vodafone Foundation by riding the fourth stage, from Ludlow to Haydock - a distance of 106 miles.

Here's a little more detail on the work of the Vodafone Foundation for Moyo Lesotho and the reason I am riding 106 miles to raise money. 

Moyo Lesotho is about using mobile technology to change lives, by getting a generation of young people living with HIV onto treatment. By using mobile technology, more children will receive life-saving treatment far faster. There are 41,000 HIV positive children in Lesotho but only 5,000 of them currently receive treatment.  I am raising funds to get all 36,000 children the life-saving treatment they need.  Very few children will survive beyond their fifth birthday if they do not receive this treatment and many of these children live in rural areas. 

The funds I raise will also be used to provide safe deliveries for mothers, preventing maternal death and the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies. 

Every pound I raise will be put to work, changing lives and it will reach more people far faster because of mobile technology.

Transport: travel funds will be sent via mobile money, so children and expectant mothers can travel to treatment - this costs just £20

Testing: results will be sent via mobile speeding up both diagnosis and treatment -just £50 will pay for a mobile enabled paediatric HIV test including the transport of the blood sample

Treatment: mobile clinics via mobile will enable nurses to be connected, and more young people and mothers to be reached. 

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