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Weʼve raised £8,895 to The Seven Fountains, Educational Trust Sponsorship Programme
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Funded on Tuesday, 10th July 2018
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On Sunday 18th March 2018 I will be undertaking The Cape Epic, a mountain bike race in South Africa.
Starting with the Prologue on Table Mountain, Cape Town, the 2018 Absa Cape Epic will pass through Robertson, Worcester and Wellington, finishing at the Val de Vie Estate in the Paarl-Franschoek Valley. The race covers 658 kilometres with 13,530 metres of over 8 days.
This event has been on my “wish list” for quite a long time and I managed to get entry to the race through Cape Leopard Trust, a local active predator conservation group.
The race is undertaken in pairs and my race partner, Jos and me are entered in the Mixed category, as Team 180, Cape Leopard.
I am asking if you will sponsor me, please. The charity I’m raising money for is the Seven Fountains, Educational Trust Sponsorship Programme which assists poor students from the north of Thailand. The Programme is run by the Roman Catholic Church in Chiang Mai. These families are very poor and many cannot afford the uniforms that children are required to wear or the supplies that they need in school, or live so far from school that they cannot afford the transport cost to reach the school. It costs as little as 1,500 Thai Baht (about £40) to maintain one child in primary school for a year. Without this help, in almost all cases these children would not receive an education.
I know that there are many competing claims for your hard earned money, however I believe that this charity is very worthy of support. Small sums of money are equally welcome as larger amounts! I don’t have a specific target amount of money that I would like to raise however I will personally match any money I receive in sponsorship up to £3,000.
It will doubtless be a tough week and the route looks suitably daunting. On a positive note I have managed to get my weight down from over 83kg to 74.1kg over the last 15 months whilst training primarily on Dartmoor, Exmoor, the Pyrenees and in Chiang Mai province, weather permitting.
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Anonymous
Apr 20, 2018
Well done - looked horrific!
Simon Dixon
Apr 18, 2018
Congrats Chris a great achievement and a very worthy cause!
£30.00
Andrew Aylwin
Apr 17, 2018
ChrisHuge congrats on completing this great challenge - hope you had fun doing too!
£50.00
Priyanthini McNair
Apr 17, 2018
Hey Chris, great cause and all the very best!
£50.00
Carly Gilligan Martyn
Apr 12, 2018
Congrats and well done Chris
£50.00
Robert Henderson
Apr 8, 2018
Great cause Chris, hope you survived in one piece...!
£50.00
Mike Barnes
Apr 7, 2018
Great effort for a great cause
£200.00
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