Many students at Giggleswick will be starting a countdown to the walking challenge that for us, in Giggleswick, has become the major yearly fundraiser for the orphanage.
Last year we raised over £5000 and this year I hope everyone will come together to make it £10,000.
The money that was raised last year by the G2G walkers went a long way and you can read about what it did by clicking on this link to their 2010 Newsletter.
Sadly there has been a recent loss of regular funding and Didi, who runs the orphanage, needs to find new sponsors for the daily running expenses of a growing school and the orphanage at Kiembeni.
Have a look at their expenses spreadsheet linked here and you can see what they need to do to just keep the place running (roughly divide the figures by 100 to get the conversion from Kenyan Shillings to GBP). The figures don't look like much to us in countries that have social security safety nets, but when you start from zero it's a considerable challenge and every shilling raised makes a difference.
That's why our fund raising is really important. Can you help?
If the number of walkers doubles this year and/or we double the individual fundraising per walker we can raise our target of £10,000!
"A rolling stone gathers no moss!" and in the last 4 years we've definitely got a rolling stone in the G2G walking challenge, which is continuing to pick up speed.
Last year we had two walkers who raised over £500 each and I am hoping that this attitude to bigger fundraising targets will catch on.
Come join the walk on Sunday May 22nd
The main page link tells you more about it and everyone is welcome to either walk or join the support crew.
Otherwise why not make a commitment to support the orphanage in some other ways, perhaps by sponsoring an individual student through school or, like two young Giggleswick students this summer, go out to Kenya and give a helping hand.
Who knows, you may even win a place in our G2G 3PC Balloon trip and get an easy ride over the wonderful Yorkshire Dales!
