A couple of years back I decided to make a significant change to my life; having done little or no exercise for years I joined the gym, started running and even cycled to work occasionally.  When a chance to cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats came along I decided to really challenge myself, "How hard can it be after all"? 

A couple of months into the training I'm starting to realise just how big a challenge this is going to be!  Perhaps 8-10 hours cycling per day for 9 consecutive days.....   Mmmm?   

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Through this event I can raise funds to significantly improve the lives of others, so I need to keep pedaling if I have any chance of completing the course.  Lesotho is a country facing an HIV / AIDS challenge; there are currently 80,000 adults receiving antiretroviral (ARV) 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 Vodafone's electronic payment system, 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.

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