Hi

Thanks for viewing my page, it really does mean a lot to me - and it will mean even more to those who are suffering from lack of shelter, food, well-being, tools, natural medicines and the lack of a decent, worthwhile life in Africa at the moment.

There are African children lacking sufficient shelter. Men are living without the basic knowledge of running a business. The youngest of babies and sweetest of mothers are starving. Thousands of innocent people are fatally suffering.

 Tree Aid can solve the latter problems, with the help of those who care. By supporting the charity you are providing African villagers with the knowledge of how to plant, grow, and take care of trees: subsequently supplying homes, shade, tools, items to sell, food, natural medicines and a decent standard of life. You are preventing unnecessary deaths.

If the above statements mean anything to you, please check out the Tree Aid website: http://www.treeaid.org.uk/index.asp?pID=1&sID=1

From 21st-23rd June 2010, during Project and Work Shadowing Week, eight students and two college teachers are travelling to Whitehaven to complete the Coast2Coast Cycling Challenge (stretching from the Irish Sea to the North Sea). We are hoping to complete the tour in three days:

Monday 21st: 35 miles. Tuesday 22nd: 70 miles. Wednesday 23rd: the remainder of the route, logically 30-40 miles.

Total: 135-145 miles. Hopefully this is a worthy expedition of significant funds for Tree Aid.

The most important thing you could ever know about me: I take a pride in helping other people, and I'd take any job that consisted of providing beneficial aid to those in need.

I am an ambitious, 17-year-old student attending Greenhead College in Huddersfield, I attend my local church on Sundays, and I am proud to be a member of the Salendine Nook Explorer Scouts.

On 19th June 2008 the scout group and I walked the Three Peaks of Yorkshire (25 miles). Some of us decided to raise money for a local charity, Kirkwood Hospice; the group raised roughly £250 from just over 100 people. This is the closest I have come to fulfilling my life-long goal: to significantly improve the goodness and condition of the world, on more than one occasion. Nationally. Worldwide. And to take every opportunity I get to do that.

You can help me fulfill this goal, consequently making thousands of peoples' lives better.

Thanks to my good friend Samantha for bringing Tree Aid to my attention. Thanks to everyone else who put forward ideas for which charity to raise money for, I love you all! And thanks in advance to those people who donate to this cause, in whatever way.

Should you donate to Tree Aid's cause and our cycle trek, I will consider myself forever in debt with your good-will. 

God bless you all, and those in need.

Cheers,

Phil :D