Jon and I are cycling from Wiltshire to Cornwall on the 1st and 2nd August – a pretty gruelling 200 miles over 2 days. We are raising money for the Savannah Education Trust. Savannah was set up by some friends of ours who travelled across Africa. They came back with a vision of helping to provide education to communities in some of the poorest and most rural communities. Between the three of them they set up the Savannah Education Trust with the aim of raising enough money in their spare time to build a school in Ghana which was locally sustainable.

10 years on they are now building their 5^th school. What they have achieved truly changes lives and has helped a number of families gain an education for their children for the first time. It has employed local builders, provided a clean water supply in all five villages, and gives locals opportunities to study to become teachers and cooks for the school. It also provides them with hope that their children may not have to live the lifestyle of subsistence farming that the previous generations have been unable to break.

Each classroom costs £500 to furnish and there are six of them in the school. If we can raise £1,000 to furnish 2 classrooms this would help hugely in moving the process closer to allow children to start studying.