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<p>I've decided to join my brother Chris in his 2013 Kilimanjaro climb, to help raise funds for and awareness of Kick4Life's work in Lesotho. I did think £3,900 is an impossible amount to raise, but I have a plan and am excited!</p>
<p>Kick4Life (www.kick4life.org) are establishing and delivering a development model using sport as a faciltator to help address challenges around HIV/AIDS, employment and education.</p>
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<p class="style2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">I'm focusing my own efforts on one of K4L's newest schemes; the 'ReCYCLE programme'. K4L's new social enterpise is a weekly waste collection service powered by Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) using bicycles and trailers to collect recyclables from subscribing customers.<span class="style5"> </span></p>
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<p class="style2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="style5">While this scheme promotes recycling in the capital Maseru, and provides disadvantaged youth with an opportunity to generate income for school fees, books, uniforms, shoes and other basic living costs; by nature it also helps promote cycling as a way of getting about. </span></p>
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<p class="style2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="style5">This third benefit interests me as a transport planner by profession, and after visiting Lesotho in 2009 and learning that the second biggest killer after AIDS in this country is down to the car. I believe that the development of a country and its people, whether in the UK or Lesotho, should also involve the development of multiple ways of getting about, as opposed to just the car. </span><span style="color: #666666;"> <br></span></p>
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<p>I believe this a positive movement supporting the development of young people and a unique country. I aim to support this by raising money in a number of ways, while promoting sustainable travel here in the UK! (and by climbing Kilimanjaro with Chris). </p>
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<p>The Kilmanjaro bit is obviously something I'll enjoy immensely and benefit from hugely, so over the next 18 months I'll be donating the part of the £3,900 that goes towards that. The rest (what anyone else donates) will go directly to K4L's work. </p>
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