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Hello lovely people! It's that time again, when I ask you all for money! Last time, you guys managed to raise >£5000 in a very short space of time for Haiti ( was blown away by that!!) and now I am asking you do do the same for the ace charity Send a Cow. 

I am hoping to complete 100 miles of cycling dressed in a cow print cycling jersey and lycra. For this alone, I feel I deserve money. The route starts in East London, ends near the Queens house and takes us up such delightful little mounds such as Box Hill and Leith Hill. Google them for vertical pictures of hills. 

My family has been involved with Send a Cow for years and my Dad has been out to Africa several times to help with the work they do there.

As a teenager, it was normal for me to open the garage to park my bike and find a life size fibre glass cow gazing back at me....a tad off putting at times!! This cow was used to go to events where it was filled with 'milk' for children to milk her! Now, the cow is of a higher spec, has a name (Milky May), has her own grass covered skateboard and trailer, as well as horse blanket to keep her dry, and is regularly transported around the country by my parents for various events. She has even been stopped by the police on a motorway as they were intrigued as to what she was!! As excruciatingly embarrassing the fibre glass cow was for me as a teenager (interesting convos with first b'friend!), she has been and continues to be an invaluable tool in explaining and drumming up support for this amazing charity. I am no longer embarrassed by her as I can appreciate the life changing work that she is involved in....plus, she's much better house trained than a real cow!

The basic premise of the charity is for a cow to be given to a family for milk. The family are supported by the charity through teaching how to house the cow, feed her, milk her and then breed her. That cow will then have a calf and the calf is given to another family and so on. And this is done with goats, bees, chickens etc etc. In this way, people and villages can become self sustaining as well as forming community and building relationships. The projects also involve the teaching of agriculture and horticulture amongst others as well as life skills such as family planning and accountancy.

Please, if you have any sympathy for the teenager that I was, or the saddle sore person that I am today, give some money to have me suffer a slow and embarrassing, chafe ridden day and change the lives of families who desperately need your support.

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