Today a rather wonderful thing happened. Today my lovely workplace Cundall donated £500 to match the £500+ sponsorship I've raised so far. A five hundred pound donation, that really is something! So firstly, thank-you ever so much to Cundall for their generosity!
Secondly, it looks like I need a new fundraising target; I need to stretch my goals not just in running it seems! To come up with a fundraising target with a purpose I spoke to the UK representative of Global Action Nepal to find out exactly what all of this sponsorship buys; £10 buys a schoolbag for life £40 buys 50 books for a school library £75 pays for a teacher to be trained over the course of a year £300 pays for a small rainwater harvesting kit which protects school buildings and provides clean drinking water £750 will kit out a primary school classroom (paint, carpets, furniture, shoe racks, books) Putting all of this together, a brand new classroom for 30 children costs £1465, which is what my new target will be. And that new classroom may look a little something like this:
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