Mend The Gap School’s Team

Mend the Gap's 26 Challenge - Massai Traditional Jumping (Adumu).

Fundraising for Mend the Gap
£475
raised of £10,000 target
by 10 supporters
Mend the Gap has neither access to government grants nor well-known personalities and celebrities to front it in fundraising campaigns. This campaign will raise vital funds to save the charitys activities and survive the COVID 19 Corona pandemic

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Make a donation, then film yourself doing 26 traditional Massai jumps (Adumu).  Once you have completed pass the challenge on to 6 more people by sharing your video. 

You might find this example of Adumu useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzObm70x6Tg

If for whatever reason 26 jumps are not possible... alternative approaches are welcome... for example creative editing or camera angles/movement... 2 shared jumps are better than none! 

We are a group of staff & students from schools in North Somerset (Clevedon School, Gordano School, Churchill School & Chew Valley School), who run an annual charity trip to Kenya with our friends at the charity Mend The Gap ( http://www.mendthegap.org.uk/ )

The trips each year provide a cultural exchange opportunity for students from both the UK & Kenya as well as raising thousands of pounds for the charity. 

This year, due to the COVID-19 outbreak our annual trip has had to be cancelled. This campaign is one of the ways we are trying to make amends for the shortfall in funds to the charity. Inspired by the 2.6 challenge set out in place of this year's London Marathon, we felt this would be an appropriate & fun challenge to undertake. With Kenya having produced so many fantastic marathon runners, the link seemed like one too good to miss. 

Mend the Gap is an innovative African Diaspora-led charity that serves vulnerable and excluded people living at the very margins of society. Serving isolated rural communities in Narok (Massai Mara) and Nyamira Counties in Western Kenya, as well as the Kibera slums of Nairobi. We support education and eradicate poverty for the poorest of the poor. Over the decade, we have consulted, worked with, trained and sign-posted vulnerable and isolated elderly people and pupils in the 24 primary and secondary schools we work with. Orphans make up the vast majority of 2 of these schools, that are totally dependent on Mend the Gap for their very existence and day to day survival. Needless to say, our work addresses complex and multi-stranded problems of under-resourced schools, individuals, families, friends and communities using innovative and often ingenuous ways. Volunteer tutors are fully qualified and staff are highly skilled and competent trainers, managers and development workers.

About the campaign

Mend the Gap has neither access to government grants nor well-known personalities and celebrities to front it in fundraising campaigns. This campaign will raise vital funds to save the charitys activities and survive the COVID 19 Corona pandemic

About the charity

Mend the Gap

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Mend the Gap promotes the cause of education and reduces poverty to benefit the poorest and most isolated communities in Eastern Africa and the UK for the benefit of current and future generations. It achieves this by making bridges and creating links between people from different backgrounds.

Donation summary

Total raised
£475.00
Online donations
£475.00
Offline donations
£0.00

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