I'm CYCLING 450kms from London to Paris!
Wednesday 1st to Saturday 4th July 2009
(yes, I'm cycling on my bday!)

Day 1: London – Dover - Calais - 145km approx. cycle
Day 2: Calais – Arras - 125km approx. cycle
Day 3: Arras - Compiegne - 125km approx. cycle
Day 4: Compiegne – Paris - 90km approx. cycle

I've chosen the International Childcare Trust (ICT) to raise money for again as I feel they're a great, small charity with minimal overheads providing help to children growing up less priviledged than every one of you reading this.

£5 will pay for tetanus vaccinations for 20 kids.
£14 will provide 2 new desks to go into a classroom.
£35 will help to provide bursaries for deprived young people looking for options for the future.  They can benefit from skills training in cookery, sewing, mechanics, plumbing, English and computers.
£40 will enable an orphaned child to buy a school uniform and shoes so they can enrol in primary school.  In turn, an education will help them restart their lives.
£72 will protect a child from abuse and exploitation and offer traumatised children counselling and confidence building support.

International Childcare Trust’s work is about... ensuring that vulnerable children have a future by empowering local organisations in Africa and Asia; there are over 132 million children globally orphaned due to extreme poverty, conflict, family dysfunction and HIV/AIDS.  ICT is a small, dynamic, charity with low overheads who fund high impact targeted projects managed and staffed by local people.  These projects give deprived children and young people the essentials they need to build a life: shelter, healthcare, education, skills training and companionship.  You can make a difference... from Stanley Age 9 “When my mother died and ended up on the streets I never imagined I could go back to school, but now I sleep on a mattress and go to school like other children.”.  Check out the International Childcare Trust website for more information about their great work for underprivileged children in the world.

Thank you to all who have helped me raise vital funds for charities over the past couple of years.  Together we have raised over £5k for International Childcare Trust when I cycled in India last year with Dad, £1k for CARE International when I hiked the 3 mountains in 24 hours and £2k for Wateraid when I ran the London Marathon!