<p>Please sponsor me and help me support &nbsp;a good freind of mine, Stuart Block, complete an amazing challenge.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Stuart is cycling from South Africa to London, on a tandem bike, a challenge known as "Beyond the Bike". He started in September and will arrive in London for the Olympics. That's 14,000 km in total!&nbsp;He's doing this in order to raise awareness of education in Africa. He also aims to raise &pound;100,000 for 4 charities (see below) of which he has raised &pound;80,000 already (&pound;20,000 through Just giving)</span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">I am trying to raise &pound;2,000 towards the &pound;100,000. I'll be "stoking" (ie cycling on the seat behind) Stuart in mid May for the Italian leg from Pisa. 300km in 3 hot days climbing Italian hills will be reasonaly tough, however the person you will really be sponsoring is Stuart, who has been grinding out the KMs every day for months, as well as teaching and blogging on the way.&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Most of the money (60%) will be used to support the building and running costs of schools in northern Zambia, in partnership with&nbsp;<a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #2a42c6; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" title="Beyond Ourselves" href="http://www.beyondourselves.co.uk/">Beyond Ourselves</a>.&nbsp; The first project will be to start building much-needed classrooms at Kawama School in Kitwe. The remainder will be split between the charities UNICEF (promoting sport for development in Africa),&nbsp;<a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #2a42c6; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" title="Alive &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Kicking" href="http://www.aliveandkicking.org.uk/">Alive &amp; Kicking</a>&nbsp;(social enterprise that manufactures sports balls in Zambia &amp; Kenya) and&nbsp;<a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #2a42c6; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" title="Right to Sight" href="http://www.righttosight.com/">Right to Sight</a>&nbsp;(helping eradicate preventable blindness in Africa).</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">If you want to find out more about Beyond the Bike, or follow Stuart's progress, visit <a href="http://www.beyondthebike.org/">Beyond the Bike</a>. I particularly like Stuart's <a href="http://www.beyondthebike.org/index.php?option=com_easyblog&amp;amp;amp;amp;view=blogger&amp;amp;amp;amp;layout=listings&amp;amp;amp;amp;id=69&amp;amp;amp;amp;Itemid=31">Economic Cyclist blog</a>&nbsp;which has quite a readership among UK and African sixth form students.</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Please contribute a small fraction towards the &pound;2000 that will prove to Stuart, during those long Italian hill climbs, &nbsp;that I have financial, if not physical, utility!</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Many thanks. Go Blockie!</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Garri</p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">PS: Please note that all money raised for these causes will go directly to the charities and is not being used to subsidise any of our or Stuart or my travel costs.</span></p>