Kate for 40K Home

Kate for 40K Home
Creator Kate Piper
Close at Saturday, 2 January 2010

I am dusting off the joggers and pounding the pavement in the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival, running 9kms.

At the same time I am aiming to raise money for charity and I would welcome any contribution, great or small, that you could make!

(Do Not Use - OLD) The 40K Home Foundation

40K takes on cost-effective poverty-reducing education projects that empower people to realise their right to social and economic development.

Our maiden project was the building of a bridging school to benefit the families of exploited quarry workers in the rural slums around Bangalore. With their families unable to afford to send them to school, the children will now have access to crucial stimulation and education during their key developmental years. The bridging school will therefore provide remedial education for up to 150 children at a time, to bring them up to speed before they are placed into the local mainstream schooling. This otherwise unavailable access to education will make a massive difference to these children’s lives and afford them the opportunities, which were not available to their parents, to work their way out of poverty.

We now want to have a greater impact by providing educational opportunities to over 2,000 children per year. This will involve partnerships with three local and highly experienced non-profit organisations in India to provide access to libraries, reading programs, after school programs and vital life skills programs.

To find out more about 40K, its events, or volunteer opportunities, check out our website www.40k.com.au or send an email to info@40k.com.au

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FUNDOMETER

TARGET
$1,000.00

RAISED SO FAR
$1,130.00

Team member of " Freehills Corporate - 42km for 40K Home "

As part of its commitment to engage with and contribute to the world outside the office, the corporate group at Freehills in Sydney has announced an initiative in 2009 to raise $45,000 for 40k Home (www.40khome.org).

40K Home is a non-profit organisation that takes on innovative solutions to poverty-related problems in the developing world, and provides a bridge between Australia and its projects by making those projects adventurous, interactive and scientific. The inaugural project is a first-of-its-kind eco-shelter and community learning centre for 150 severely underprivileged kids outside Bangalore, India. After 3 years of planning, the construction phase kicked off in February 2009 and with your support, can be finished by May next year. Check out the 40K website for the latest pictures and update.

As a major part of the fund-raising, a team of runners from Freehills has entered into the Sydney Running Festival in September and hopes to raise a total of $30,000 by running, walking (and, in some cases, crawling) the marathon, half-marathon and the bridge run.

Please lend your support to 40K Home and the runners by sponsoring the Freehills team, or any of the individual runners. Any donation, however small, would be very greatly appreciated and will help us achieve our target of $30,000!

SUPPORTERS

SUPPORTERS	AMOUNT	MESSAGE
Brendan Malone	30.00	Well done
Jennifer Piper	50.00	Go Kate!x
Bill and Evelyn McLarty	50.00	We'll be shouting for you Kate!
Lucy Squire	30.00	Hope this gets you to your target lovely x
Regan Kempthorne	50.00	Good luck lovely - Can't wait to see you Monday :)
Fiona Smedley	100.00	Good luck Kate!
Imogen O'Neill	20.00
Trisha Hughes	50.00	Good on you Kate, you are a winner!
Amanda Hughes	50.00	To a great cause! Go get 'em Kate ! We love you, miss you !! Amanda & Josef
Rohit Bhuta	50.00	Great initiative and a worthwhile cause.....
Alex Head	50.00	Will be in the support car drinking vb and yelling through a megaphone. Encouragement of course....
Danielle Spinks	30.00	Good luck Kate!
Bell Story	20.00	Go Kate go!
Lydia-Jane Saunders	20.00	Good luck Kate xxx
Sal Jones	10.00	Go Pipes Go! woot woot!
Tash Lee	30.00	Kate, 9kms! Afterwards I will bake you a big chocolate cake. Well done for stepping up to the mark!
Jaidene Osborne	20.00	Good luck Kate! xx
Edward McLarty	50.00	Kate, I don't think champagne drinking counts as carbo loading, but I'm sure you'll try. Good luck
Rudi Selles	50.00	Kate: I expect you to do this wearing something stylish and outrageous so we can spot you from afar. Don't forget to get Andy to give you some tips.
Alex Lopez	50.00	Go Kate!! don't forget to train or at least wear some fashionable gear
Stuart Milson	10.00	Hi Kate- hey good luck- did I see that you have donated money youself? Hey good luck- I know you will smash it Stuart
stuart mclarty	50.00	Go Katie!
Daniel Street	50.00	Well done Kate! 40KHome, headed by Clary Castrission, is an outstanding organisation to be running for.
David Butler	100.00	Good luck Kate. I'd say I'd be running too, but I'll be nursing a amassive hangover in Thredbo this week.
Todd Slatter	20.00	Go Kate!! Smash it.
Katie Rosser	40.00	Good luck Kate! This is from Michele & I
Kate Piper	50.00

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