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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10.5pt;">Earlier this month, my son <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Tim and I succeeded - despite 25mph headwinds - to cycle 135 miles on the Coast 2 Coast route </span></strong>from Whitehaven across the Penines to Sunderland with some off road to spice the trip up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8 weeks ago neither of us had cycled more than a few miles – Tim found energy reserves he had not seen since he was 9 , and I survived. We climbed up 10,000 feet - the equivalent of 2 1/2 times the height of Ben Nevis - shame the wind stopped us coasting down the other side !!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10.5pt;">We are raising funds for <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Kisima secondary school </span></strong>in deprived Northern Kenya which gives hope and a future to 160 children from the poorest and most violent areas in Kenya's tribal desert regions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10.5pt;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Students are all financed by donations</span></strong>. The school opened in 2005 and is already changing lives. The second class to complete the 4 years there achieved fantastic exam results, coming top in their district and 66th out of 4,000 secondary schools in the whole of Kenya. 85% achieved university entrance grades (national average 24%) including 2 girls studying medicine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The school is about building hope and a future for the poorest of the poor. Please look at the photos to see the homes these students come from – the video is also uplifting and humbling <span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">(<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=ZXMYwWuEbAY" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=ZXMYwWuEbAY"><span title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=ZXMYwWuEbAY"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=ZXMYwWuEbAY</span></span></a>)</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Tim and I suffetred in the saddle for this great cause - so please give generously to help lift bright students out of poverty and help regenerate Northern Kenya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">£25 houses and educates a student at Kisima for a month - but all support is most appreciated. </span></strong></span>Thank you for supporting us - Martin and Tim Dunkerton</p>