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Tandem Africa - Cycle Ride from Cambridge to Cape Town
Beth and Richard Kahle are cycling from Cambridge, UK, to Cape Town, South Africa, on a tandem bicycle in celebration of the 500th anniversary of St John’s College, Cambridge, founded in 1511. They are raising funds for the Trust at the same time. To support them in their efforts please sponsor them by clicking on www.justgiving.com/tandemafrica.
Their journey will begin at the end of July, 2010. For information about them and their journey please visit www.tandemafrica.com
London to Brighton Cycle Ride - 12th June 2010
Mario Joseph, our UK Programme Officer, successfully completed his epic cycle ride from London to Brighton on 12th June 2010 to raise funds for the Trust. If you would like to sponsor him, please go to www.justgiving.com/burninglactateforcharity
SOMALIA: From refugee camp to university campus
Windle Kenya provides university study opportunities to Somali refugees in partnership with World University Service of Canada - click here for full story
Andrew Shawyer successfully ran the Brighton marathon on Sunday 18th April 2010 to raise funds for the Trust. If you would like to retrospectively sponsor him, please go to www.justgiving.com/AndrewShawyer
Former Student highlighted in the National Geographic
Former student, Malik Marjan Doka, has recently been featured in the National Geographic Magazine. Malik studied at The University of Kent for a one year Masters in Conservation Biology in 1997/98. Windle then sponsored him to do a six-month internship with Kenya Wildlife Services. This provided him with valuable practicle experience in line with his field of study. Read about Malik and his work at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/explorers/marjan-malik-09.html
everyclick.com
everyclick.com is a search engine that lets you search the web and benefit the charity of your choice. So far everyclick.com has raised £245,137* for charities. Windle has recently signed up to everyclick.com so all you need to do to raise money for Windle is select Windle Trust International as the charity you would like to support and then search the web as normal, there's absolutely no charge to you or the charities involved.
How it works: everyclick allocates 50% of its gross revenue to charity each month. Each active charity receives a proportion of that sum equivalent to the proportion in which its supporters use the website relative to the supporters of other active charities. All website activity by users is measured by reference to the number of searches that website users make - so go to http://www.everyclick.com/uk/windle-trust-international/366251/0 get clicking!
Windle Video
This three minute video presented by Jeremy Vine gives a brief overview of what Windle does and why. (Right click on the links and select 'Save As')
- Part 1 (MPG - 3.6MB)
- Part 2 (MPG - 4.9MB)
- Part 3 (MPG - 2MB)
Featured programme
Windle Trust International is working with UNICEF to enable the teachers of Southern Sudan to rebuild the education system following decades of conflict.
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