First time doing something like this so be gentle.

It turns out that I'm meant to try to raise some money for the official charity as well (oops) so I've set this one up to funnel donations from people that haven't yet donated into this one. I will also contribute some cash into this as penance:

It started out as a COVID boredom-fuelled, travel-nostalgic, cheeky scroll on Instagram, and culminated in promises being made and money being put down. It's two years away right? How bad could it be anyway? 

A month to go, I'm taking part in the Mongol Monkey Run and I'm terrified. The Mongol Monkey Run is a 'race' from the south of Mongolia to the North of Mongolia among a poorly defined route (that won't be released to us until closer to the time (and will be released on paper) +  I don't think the Google cars are particularly equipped to navigate the Gobi desert anyway) where there is no fuel, food, water or accommodation support. You kind of just have to figure it out yourself. If that wasn't all, you're doing all of this while riding a 50cc monkey bike (please google this) over 12 days. There's a slight snag to this which is that I've actually never ridden a motorbike before (unless scooters count). It's the only event that the organising company does where you're required to keep a GPS tracker on your person, and this is the first iteration of it (so they don't even know if it's possible). 

So anyway, please help me raise some money in memory of this totally stupid event for a cause dear to me. 

I have chosen the Raspberry Pi Foundation because anyone that knows me, will be aware that I very much care about bringing technical education to as many kids as possible. In an increasingly digital world, familiarity with programming, computer science and related subjects is becoming as important as familiarity with a keyboard was in the earlier part of this century. It's not about making every kid a programmer and is totally about ensuring that every child is fluent with the high-level concepts relating to this new, computer and AI focused world.