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| Karl C |
Daniel sets off on July 18th to cycle, alone.....I would like to invite you, your family, friends, club members, acquaintances and anyone you can grab off the street to a charity Curry Night on July 9th in Thundersley.Daniel sets off on July 18th to cycle, alone, to India. One of the aims of his trip is to raise £20,000 for the charity ActionAid and this Curry Night will be our first contribution to the fund. I have attached a poster and some additional information about the trip and the charity. Please, please support this event if you can Thanks a lot , Chris Bent (Pitsea Running Club and father of Daniel !) |
| Karl C |
Daniel Bent’s 9,000 mile bike ride to India
In Aid of ActionAid Charity Registration No 274467 Charity Curry Night Starter and all you can eat from a buffet of over 50 dishes for £12 (English dishes also available ) Tandoori Parlour Indian Restaurant 61-63 Hart Road, Thundersley Thursday 9th July 2009 Any time from 7 p.m. Please let Chris Bent know how many tickets you would like. Tel 01702 258623 Email: cpbent@tiscali.co.uk Dan’s Epic Bike Ride. On 18th of July Daniel Bent will leave his flat in Richmond and set off on a cycle journey which will take him through France, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kygristan, China, Tibet, Nepal and India. His final destination is Vidyodaya School in the village of Chebakolli in Southern India, where Daniel will teach. Vidyodaya School is twinned with the primary school where Daniel currently teaches in Richmond. On his journey Daniel is trying to raise £20,000 for ActionAid. Action Aid Action Aid is a charity dedicated to ending the extreme poverty that kills 28 children every minute of every day. It is a charity and much more. It is a partnership between people in poor countries and people in rich countries – all working together to end poverty for good. ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK's largest development agencies, it works in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over 19 million of the world's poorest people. For more information about ActionAid http://www.actionaid.org.uk You can donate to ActionAid through the just giving website below. http://www.justgiving.com/dannybent Follow Daniel’s progress through his website http://www.dannybent.com (site presently under construction) |