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Educating Tanzania Foundation is a family foundation, all volunteer educating children in the Arusha, Tanzania area. In our 11th year, we support 62 children ages 5-15 who are attending 7 schools with fully boarded annual tuition in an English speaking curriculum. English enables the children to work in the Tourism industry (supporting visitors to Safari and Kiliminjaro climbs), government and teaching professions and with University (which is government assisted) professions like Medicine, Finance, and other Business opportunities. Without English, students living in orphanages are turned out at the age of 12 and children who do live with family join them in entering a work environment with 60% unemployment and average wages of 1$ per day. !00% of your donations go to the children, as the foundation pays all the overhead, from activities like this ride! We “Break the Bonds of Poverty- One child at a time”, with your help.
The Fuller Center for Housing is the host for our trip. This faith-based organization supports community groups all over the world primarily with financing to future home recipients, interest free at repayment rates that can be managed by the recipients, who also work to build or renovate a new home. As a revenue generator, the organization “Fuller Center Bike Adventures.org” sponsors many cycling trips through the year, and allow riders to participate weekly in a house build. All religions are welcome, and Fuller Center is christian faith-based. Fuller Center have organized churches for sleeping accomadations, and I expect that one highlight will be the “community of strangers” who will welcome and sometimes feed us!
The journey Im beginning begins in Seattle Washington on May 23 and concludes in Washington D.C. on August 4, 73 days later! The map below shows the route. 4000+ miles, 13 States, 73 days and 50000 feet of climbing.
Gonna be quite an experience!!! Thanks for coming along with me!
