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Updated on Jul 20th 2011 at 10:44 PM from the JustGiving API
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<p><em><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">"The cure for poverty has a name. It's called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to which nature and some religious doctrine condemns them, and then if you throw in a handful of seeds, the floor of everything, in that village, not just poverty, but health and education, will increase."</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">~ Christopher Hitchens</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></p> <p>The better standard of living women have, the better the world is. Few groups have been and continue to be treated in a worse fashion than women. They are half of our population. I hope one day that they are not the mistreated half.</p> <p> </p> <p>I am cycling coast to cost this summer. Please sponsor me as I do. You'll be making the lives of women better, and it's long overdue.</p> <p> </p> <p>I also have a personal reason for doing this. My own mum, Geri, passed away far too young. She loved to cycle, as do I, and I hope I can accomplish some of what she did in her life. It is in her honour I cycle as a part of the G Team.</p>