Simon and Jack's 24 hour indoor bike ride

Simon Minton is raising money for Planting for Hope Uganda
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Simon & Jack’s 24 hr indoor bike ride · 25 April 2020

We are a small group of UK volunteers who have been involved with Uganda since 2007, when Kate Oakley, a retired teacher first visited. She found unimaginable poverty, hunger, disease, poor housing and sanitation and lack of educational opportunities. This motivated her to help. She is now the UK Director of our registered charity Planting for Hope Uganda and visits regularly. We raise money to help develop sustainable projects which improve conditions for the rural poor. Kititi, in South Eastern Uganda, is a small bush village near to Lake Victoria inhabited mainly by women, children and the elderly. It is a desperately poor region lacking most of the facilities that we take for granted. There is very little opportunity for paid work and families go hungry and uneducated. They receive no medical care. The overriding aim of Planting for Hope Uganda is to empower the community of Kititi by giving them hope through a self-supporting and sustainable future. The women have formed a cooperative. They make and sell paper beads and other crafts to provide food and education for their families. We are supporting them in this endeavour by raising awareness and funds for the following initiatives: improved diet and clean water, education and job opportunities, health care, housing and sanitation, sustainable farming projects, electricity, and supporting the elderly. There are very few overheads, so virtually every penny raised goes directly to the community of Kititi.

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 Jack and I plan to do a 24 hour indoor bike ride, splitting the riding time between us, both of us being in our own homes. We will use stationary bikes and plan to do a rota of 4 hours on, four hours off. 

The aim is to raise money to help the villagers of Kititi during the COVID-19 pandemic. The villagers have no savings, low food stocks and are  heavily dependent on casual labour, meaning that hardly anyone can survive by working from home. There are no government measures in place in terms of food supply. 

The money raised will provide food parcels, as well as soap, for as many villagers as possible. Apollo is working tirelessly to make sure that everyone gets what they need. Some of the ladies in the village  have started to make face masks. A nearby village now has a few people with COVID-19 so it won't be long before it arrives in Kititi.

I have been involved with this charity since 2015 and it is amazing what Kate and Apollo have achieved during this time.

More information about Planting for Hope Uganda can be found Facebook. 

https://www.facebook.com/planting4hopeuganda/

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