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Please join us in support to raise funds and awareness of the Chikumbuso Women and Orphans Project and World Bicycle Relief as we bike from coast to coast June-August 2010.

Our goals:

To provide a well for a community soccer field in the compound of Ng’ombe in Zambia currently used by the Chikumbuso Grassroot Soccer Team. Chikumbuso provides free education and meals to 300 orphans as well as empowering widows and single moms through microenterprise projects.

Estimated cost- $10,000

Raise funds to donate 100 bicycles for an entire school through WBR- Bicycle Educational Empowerment Program. WBR has pledged to supply 50,000 bicycles to schools in Zambia. Recognizing the particular vulnerability of female children and the importance of educating girls, 70% of student recipients will be girls.

Cost- $13,500

To create awareness of Hasbro’s http://www.projectzambi.com/ inspired by a visit to the Chikumbuso Project.

To donate:

Click on the Donate Now link to make donations directly to World Bicycle Relief through our sponor page.

Or mail checks, payable to Friends of Chikumbuso or World Bicycle Relief, to Sabrina Buehler 350B Cossaduck Hill Rd, North Stonington, CT 06359. For more information email Sabrina at sabrinabuehler@aol.com

100% of Donations go Directly to the projects

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Day 1 – Go West (Young ?) Man, Go West

Here we go, Ben ad I out on the road, pop-up trailer in tow. The day started out behind schedule at about 8:00 a.m., today Wed. 6/9/2010. Of course my plan of an o’dark:30 start were way too ambitious. We didn’t even have all the stuff packed in the truck or the trailer hooked up! Oh well, I’m semi-retired now and I’m not going to rush things and get off on the wrong foot. It seems like we got everything, although since we didn’t have a checklist, I mean we got EVERYTHING. Smooth sailing so far and we’re into PA. A started looking at the itinerary and picking out names of places that we’ll stop at on the route home. Wilkes-Barre, Clarence, DuBois, Grove City. As we travel through PA, Rt. 20 parallels Highway 80 so we can visualize the terrain that we’ll be ride through. Long rolling hills, but hopefully it will not be raining. Today it started raining about Scranton, PA and hasn’t stopped yet. We’ve decided that if it doesn’t stop by Indiana, we’ll just drive through the night. We (Ben) just saw a great road sign, BUCKLE UP – NEXT MILLION MILES. Ben just had a flash back from the first time we drove cross country, “Somebody to Love” by QUEEN just came on the radio and he remembered that we had that cassette on the last trip!

Sorry if I’m being long winded, but this is going to be a GREAT trip, Bens driving while I’m blogging. Sabrina reported good news today in that we’ve gotten several responses from Rotarians along our route who are offering places to park the rig over night and possible speaking engagements to raise awareness of Chikumbuso and WBR. That’s what it’s all about. You people reading this already know the wonderful results these projects are achieving in Zambia and we just want to spread the word – spread the love.

Callie-Jean, 2 points of interest in PA, Williamsport – Reptiland with butterfly exhibit and Living (something) Animal Park with camel ride by Grove City.

Keep Them Wheels a Rollin’

Paul

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