Joseph Foster

Rome Marathon 2018

Fundraising for African Gifted Foundation
£6,070
raised of £6,000 target
by 136 supporters
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Participants: Dominic Parr, George Varley, Guy Boscawen, Joshua Wade, Joseph Foster
African Gifted Foundation

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RCN 1133900
We educate gifted young African women to develop Africa's future STEM leaders

Story

Recently two of our friends rowed across the Atlantic. Measured by distance alone we are trying to achieve something 114.5x less impressive.

On April 8th this year, 5 young men will attempt to do something that literally hundreds of thousands of people do every year...run a marathon.

Whilst the feat we are undertaking is not ground breaking, we believe that the work of The African Gifted Foundation is. 

The African Science Academy opened in Ghana in 2016, it gives talented girls from across Africa access to the type education that we all took for granted. (http://www.africangifted.org/)

In just 10 months the girls take Maths, Further Maths, Physics AS and A Levels. Josh in particular finds this remarkable given he scraped an A in GCSE Maths.

If we were able to raise £6000 then we could pay tuition fees for a student for a whole year. Given that Joe paid £9000 a year for 2hrs of contact time a week at university, that seems like extraordinary value for money. 

Please do give generously and get in touch with any of us if you would like to know more about the charity or get involved with any fundraising. 






About the charity

African Gifted Foundation

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RCN 1133900
The African Science Academy (ASA) is Africa’s first STEM academy for academically gifted girls in Ghana. ASA provides brilliant, academically gifted young women from disadvantaged backgrounds from across Africa with a world-class STEM education – all on fully-funded scholarships.

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Total raised
£6,070.00
+ £1,049.50 Gift Aid
Online donations
£6,070.00
Offline donations
£0.00

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