Blaise Trigg-Smith is fundraising for Room To Read

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Raising money for

Room To Read

Charity Registration No. 1125803

We partner with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children's literature, constructing schools, providing education to girls and establishing computer labs. We seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education empowers people to improve socioeconomic conditions for their families, communities, countries and future generations. Through the opportunities that only education can provide, we strive to break the cycle of poverty, one child at a time.

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Blaise Trigg-Smith

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27/05/2010

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Raised: 72%

Target: £5,000.00
Raised so far: £3,610.00

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My story

The more our journey continues, the more we realise how fortunate we are to be able to undertake this adventure, and the more we wonder how we can possibly give back to the communities that show us generosity along the way, despite the fact that they have so little.

Over the last few weeks, we have been searching for a cause that we are not only passionate about, but that would be geographically relevant to our trip. This has led us to look at charities fulfilling three criteria: promoting development through community-based education initiatives, promoting opportunities for girls to receive that education and go on to either aid their communities or follow that education through elsewhere, and a focus on the Asian regions which we will pass through or have passed through in the past. Unsurprisingly, this narrows down our options significantly, but Room to Read not only meets these criteria, but enables our fundraising efforts to take on a more personal dimension by allowing us to contribute to a specific project.

For more details on why Room to Read's work has inspired each of us, please see our blog:

http://happypedalers.wordpress.com/giving-back

We are aiming to raise £5,000. The monies raised will be tagged by Room to Read and directed towards the construction of a reading room in a Vietnamese school, as well as providing £2,300 towards scholarships towards girls' education in Vietnam. The reading room will provide the space for a library of up to 1000 local language and English books, and the scholarships will fund 10 years of a girl's education, through secondary school. For more information on Room to Read and the use of these funds visit

http://www.roomtoread.org/about/index.html

Please help us to raise money towards the construction of these children's libraries. Your help is much appreciated!

Pedalling on,

Blaise and Tom

PS. Donating through Justgiving is the most efficient way to sponsor us: Room To Read gets your money faster and will code the funds directly to the libraries in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Nepal. Also, if you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation.

	Donation by Crescentia Mols 17/11/09	£50.00
	Donation by Helmut Willems 15/11/09	£50.00
	Donation by Mark Dorosz 12/11/09	£50.00
	Donation by Chris and Flora Hill 20/10/09	£500.00 + £141.03 Gift Aid
	Donation by Uta and Yousef Ghorab 12/10/09	£100.00
	Donation by Peter Reay 07/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by Yuki Finch 05/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Donation by Uta Troester-Ghorab 28/09/09	£100.00
	Donation by Jill Trigg-Smith 14/09/09	£100.00
	Donation by Greg Shea 06/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Sue Lynn and Toby 02/09/09	£200.00
	Donation by Megan Hatta 21/08/09	£40.00
	Donation by David, Nikita and Christina Weickhardt 03/08/09	£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid
	Donation by Hermann Joseph u. Elisabeth Lenz 30/07/09	£100.00
	Donation by Katherine & Tristram 27/07/09	£200.00
	Donation by Anonymous 25/07/09	£100.00
	Donation by Franzi 24/07/09	£100.00
	Donation by The Man with the Muscle Structure 22/07/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Anonymous 19/07/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by Anonymous 18/07/09	£100.00
	Donation by John & Fiona 17/07/09	£60.00 + £16.92 Gift Aid
	Donation by Lesley Johnson 17/07/09	£50.00
	Donation by Emily Chang and J. Stull 10/07/09	£50.00
	Donation by Random Azeri guy on the road to Qax 07/07/09	£50.00
	Donation by Anonymous 06/07/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Donation by Tobias Habbig 06/07/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Donation by Hildegard Dr. Hansmann 05/07/09	£120.00
	Donation by Alice Freeman 03/07/09	£40.00
	Donation by freunde von koeln 02/07/09	£140.00
	Donation by Guram Andronikashvili 02/07/09	£200.00 + £56.41 Gift Aid

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* Total raised online:	£3,610.00
Offline donations:	£0.00
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£400.51

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