Dear Sponsors,

We have returned home safely from our cycling challenge in Vietnam & Cambodia in support of Engineers Against Poverty (EAP).

It is a real sense of achievement to have cycled 520km from Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) to Siem Reap and the temples of Angkor Wat (Cambodia) in seven days. Our group of 12 cyclists managed to raise £37,000 for EAP.

The challenge was a fantastic experience. We feel that we gave the best of ourselves, especially during the 5 very tough days when we peddled for some 80 to 90km with temperatures of 35 to 40 degrees C on dusty roads; tired, sore, thirsty and dirty but thinking about our sponsors back home...

Thank you all very much for your support and sponsorship.

Christine, Llewellyn & Annabel

 

Thank you for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page.

We are seeking sponsorship to complete a Vietnam-Cambodia Cycle Challenge to raise money for the charity Engineers Against Poverty (EAP). EAP works with industry, government and civil society to fight poverty and encourage the contribution that extractive industries can make to creating jobs, promoting enterprise development and improving education and training in some of the world’s poorest countries.  

We value each and every contribution, so please sponsor us now!

Thank you very much in advance

Christine, Llewellyn and Annabel

The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP)                                           

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 taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate – we raise more whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

We are currently gearing up to train for a 500-kilometre bike challenge that will take us through plantations, rice-paddies and waterways from to Angkor Wat.

The three of us: Brussels Office Administrator Christine Glorieux, EU Affairs Officer Annabel Holroyd and London-based Web Manager Llewellyn St. David have all signed up because we believe that, “we work in an industry that needs to give as well as take and we are keen to play our part in supporting EAP continue its excellent work on strengthening the positive local economic and social impact of extractive industries projects in the Asia-Pacific region.” 

EAP are known throughout the oil and gas industry for work on such ventures as the Baya-Undan Gas Recycle Project in Timor-Leste or the Shell ‘Malampaya’ Gas-to-Power Project in the . Such projects provide means to help develop local infrastructure and knowledge and strengthen the contribution of engineering contractors’ to local economic development. Collectively, these measures helped integrate the local economy and community into a project that might otherwise have operated as an independent micro-economy on foreign soil.

Visit EAP’s website: http://www.engineersagainstpoverty.org/ for the full story.