Robert Coker
Jo Lo Cycles to Paris
Fundraising for Education For The Children Foundation
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From 15th April to 18th April next year I will be cycling from London to Paris in order to raise money for Education for the Children Foundation.
They work in partnership with disadvantaged families, children and young adults in Guatemala, Central America to ensure they develop the tools they need to break free from the cycle of poverty. The foundation has a school in Jocotenango, Guatemala: an urban area where extreme poverty, gang crime, domestic violence and alcoholism are everyday realities.
The School of Hope not only provides children and young people from impoverished backgrounds with quality education. It also gives them food, healthcare, counselling and career guidance: everything they need to become motivated, confident and able to find employment that will improve their quality of life and help them permanently break from the cycle of poverty.
EFTC is small charity that is making such a huge difference to the lives of these children. We take these things in life for granted - going to school, having a warm lovely house to go home to and simply eating lunch! It's time for a new challenge and I'd love to help them and raise as much money as possible.
Please dig deep and help me reach my goal for this amazing cause!
What your donations could do
- £10 feeds a child for an entire month
- £20 provides one child with a 'First day at School' kit
- £30 provides two families with an emergency food basket
- £50 will treat a whole class to a new pair of sock and shoes
- £70 will buy 20 brand new glossy books for our school library
- £95 will buy a brand new bed for a child who currently sleeps on a mud floor or shared a bed with up to six other siblings.
- £150 would purchase a new roof for a family crisis during the rainy season
- £450 would buy a projector for a classroom and help us bring the school into the digital age.
- £1,000 would support the preventative healthcare programme for a whole year!