Elvire Pocornie

Biking for Beans - Cheltenham to Paris 2016 page

Fundraising for Planting for Hope Uganda
£1,731
raised of £900 target
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Biking for Beans - Cheltenham to Paris 2016, 28 July 2017
Planting for Hope Uganda

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We Help to bring hope, to save lives and fight poverty in Africa.

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BIKING FOR BEANS 2016

On 28th July 2016 from Cheltenham's picturesque promenade and home of Cheltenham's Green Coffee Machine cart, three friends, Chris, Simon and Ryan will start their mammoth 4-day cycle ride to Paris.
 
The lads will be cycling on average 60 miles a day through the UK countryside and across to French soil, eventually arriving at the Eiffel Tower to raise money for the charity, Planting for Hope Uganda. Their aim is to raise £300 each.
 
In the village of Kititi in Uganda £300 will buy an acre of land. The lads aim to buy an acre of land each with the money they raise. Once this land is bought, the women and children of the village can all work together to develop self-supporting, sustainable farming methods and then in turn construct and plant a coffee plantation on the three acres. This will help the village to become sustainable.

Its going to be tough, but the lads have been training hard and are looking forward to the challenge. Please dig deep and every donation counts.

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About the charity

Planting for Hope Uganda

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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.

Donation summary

Total raised
£1,731.00
+ £157.75 Gift Aid
Online donations
£931.00
Offline donations
£800.00

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