In summary, Help in Suffering is a charity in India, who have a project to help eradicate rabies in the city of Jaipur. In summer 2014 I will be travelling to India to work (unpaid of course) with the charity for a month. On February 23rd I will be travelling up to Yorkshire to cycle the first stage of the Tour de France, in a bid to raise money for the charity. This is by no means an easy feat! The 190km course strays far into the hilly yorkshire dales, and the weather is unlikely to be pleasant! Please donate generously for this worthy cause, and if possible, tick the gift aid box to help boost your donation!

 If the weather is awful in February (sheet ice and snow) then I will do my cycle in April instead.

To see the route: http://letour.yorkshire.com/stage-1

 

Help in Suffering is a charity based in Jaipur, India, which works for the benefit of animals. They run six separate animal welfare projects, including building a camel rescue centre, a rehoming clinic - which deals with everything from puppies to camels, and an animal birth control programme designed to reduce the levels of rabies in the street dogs of Jaipur. 

In summer 2014 I will be travelling to India to work with the charity for a month, primarily on the rabies project. There are a large number of street dogs in Jaipur, and in the past rabies has been a big issue. The local residents used to poison the dogs, however this proved quite ineffective. This is where HIS come in. They now take in dogs from the street, vaccinate them, sterilise them, and identity mark them. The dogs are then released onto the street after a full recovery. Adult males are taken in for vaccination only. To date, over 50,000 dogs have been vaccinated by HIS, and the incidence of human rabies in Jaipur has been reduced to nil in the past 4 years. The street dogs are no longer burdened with mange, venereal cancers, malnutrition, maggot-infested wounds, and injuries from accidents, and more than 70% of female dogs in the city have been vaccinated and sterilised, and 65% of the total population have been vaccinated.

I will be cycling the first stage of the Tour de France - all 190km of the unforgiving Yorkshire Dales - on the 23/02/2014, weather permitting, to help raise funds for this wonderful charity, which I will be visiting and working with in the summer of 2014. Please donate generously to this great cause, as the money you donate could make a large difference to the life of the street dogs of Jaipur, not to mention the camels, cows, horses, tortoises, and even the elephants that the charity provides veterinary treatment for.