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Inspired by my friend lovely friend Karla’s adventure, who did this challenge last year, I am cycling 500 km across Malawi at the end of May 2020. I will be raising money for African Vision Malawi, a fantastic charity that trains people in Malawi with vocational skills to help lift them out of poverty. <\p>

Please sponsor me 😀. I’ll be forever grateful and I will give you cake when I see you (Disclaimer: I might charge for it to make more money for African Vision Malawi) 😬<\p>

Thank you! <\p>

Helen x<\p>

p.s. We pay all our own costs to participate.  Every penny of your donation goes directly to Malawi. AVM prides itself on having only volunteers in the UK, no paid staff, no expenses! Thank you so much for your support.

There is a film all about Sam's Village HERE<

African Vision Malawi started nearly 15 years ago and has made an incredible difference through providing clean water, better nutrition, education and now self-sufficiency to 40,000 of the world’s most vulnerable people in Malawi.

UNESCO through the EU STEP Program have supported AVM launch an ambitious series of training courses designed to get people out of poverty. Already over 200 people have been trained during a 4-month residential stay at Sam’s Village, as carpenters, tailors, metalworkers etc. With these skills, they are now offering invaluable services to their local community and providing their families with an income. This support ends early next year, but you can help it continue. Within 2 years this program will become self-sufficient as training organisations pay to use Sam’s Village but for now we need to fund its early stages. Your donation will help at least one person to attend a course for free and fund their training and living costs.<\p>