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Our Tour de Tuli Poster

bikeourplanet — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:58:56 +0000

Tour de Tuli

bikeourplanet — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:08:04 +0000

Community

Children in the Wilderness is an environmental and life skills educational program, formed between Paul Newman and Wilderness Safaris in 2001. Children in the Wilderness exposes children to their wildlife heritage, and builds and strengthens their capabilities to cope with life’s challenges. It focuses on the next generation of rural decision makers, teaching children the importance of conservation.

The Tour de Tuli 2010 cycle tour is a benefit ride for the Children in the Wilderness program. In August of 2010 three of us will embark on this adventurous charity event in South Africa. We hope to raise $10,000. We have organized a US based donation page through an approved IRS 501(3C) organization called Resources First Foundation.

TO DONATE

Click Contribute to RFF
Choose donation amount
Select “Wilderness Safaris Wildlife Trust
Select “Community Empowerment/Edu”
To sponsor our team enter “CITW, Tour de Tuli Sponsorship of Team Hole in the Wall”
Fill in your personal Info

You can help us by donating to the event. All donations of $50 or more will receive a coupon good for any fine art 8×10 hand signed image of the event or any image my photography web site. Donations of a $100 or more will receive a free 11×14 hand signed print. Donations of $250 or more will receive a free custom framed, and matted, hand signed 11×14 print.

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I became involved in this event through my volunteer work at Just Footprints, a camp for HIV-infected children in South Africa. They are currently building a camp similar to the Hole in the Wall Camps for the children of Africa suffering from HIV/Aids. It is my hope that through education, we will help build a better future for the children of the world.

The ride will traverse three different countries: Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa and three National Parks : Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Tuli Safari Area and Mapungubwe National Park. The cycle tour will end in the beautiful Mapungubwe National Park.

Tour de Wilderness 2010:
Team Hole in the Wall

Trans New Hampshire MDA Ride 2010

bikeourplanet — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:59:24 +0000

It’s official, we have made the minimum $1500 fundraising goal, thanks in large part to Amy O’Connor. We’d like to get much past the minimum. Not only will the be my ninth year doing the event, but it will my daughter’s first major solo charity event. Tara has done the MDA ride before on a old Schwinn tandem. That’s about the only way to get a photo like that on left.

Over the years we have helped raise just about $20,000 dollars to fight Muscular Dystrophy. Please help fight Muscular Dystrophy by

Donating now

For more information, or to join us on the ride, visit the Firefighters Trans NH MDA Ride to Fight Muscular Dystrophy web site.

Sometimes a new route makes for a better journey

bikeourplanet — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:31:22 +0000

The annual Firefighters Trans New Hampshire Ride for Muscular Dystrophy took a different route this year. Faced with the impact of NH’s bike week being moved to the same week as the ride, the organizers were faced with a tough decision. Move the ride or move the course.

They choose to move the course. While the route was much tougher this year, and it ended in Concord instead of Portsmouth, the route was the best it has ever been.

Rides like the Trans New Hampshire MDA Ride benefit both the rider and the organization that they support when the the people become connected to the stories and people behind the ride. Connections are best made when people share something in common. Rides like this one bring people together through the spirit of support and shared pain brought on by the ardors of the ride. For the Trans New Hampshire MDA Ride the riders can choose to develop a connection with the some of the MDA families that come out for the ride.

This year I took a different route on the ride. After riding I went and interviewed some of these families to try and get a sense of what their lives were like and how rides like this one help out. I wanted to connect. We all know these families have it rough. We see their smiles and get inspired. I found that I, like most of the riders I interviewed, had very little understanding of what the families actually go through. What I learned was so powerful that I don’t feel adequate describing it to you. I will be capturing their stories over the coming weeks and months and presenting them too you on this web site and others.

This is a new route for me, and one that I think will be a better journey.

You can help me out with this years fund raising goals by donating here.