Hello everyone,
 
As I am sure some of you know, in June Oggie and I are taking part in the 2008 Rickshaw Rally in aid of two charities Mercy Corp India and Frank Water Projects.  The 'rally' starts in Kathmandu in Nepal and we have two weeks to navigate our way to Pondicherry in Southern India on a rickshaw/ tuk-tuk.  

As I said we are doing this in aid of two fantastic charities for whom we need to raise £1000 before we head off. The two charities we are raising funds for are;

1. Mercy Corps India - Mercy Corps' assistance to India dates back to January 2001 when the agency responded to a devastating earthquake in Gujarat. Today, Mercy Corps is working in India to build community collaboration and fulfil dire health and economic needs. The Himalayan foothills around Darjeeling, India are home to some of the world's finest teas - and some of Asia's poorest families. Current programmes include initiatives to improve water and sanitation, schooling, and support for people living with HIV/AIDS.  Website here

2. Frank Water Projects - Frank Water Projects is an independent not-for-profit company that uses income from selling bottled water in the UK to fund clean water projects in India. In this way it hopes to bring about positive change in some of the world’s poorest communities. More than a billion people in the world today lack access to clean drinking water. The result is that there are more people in the world’s hospitals today suffering from water-borne diseases than any other ailment. Two million children die every year - 6000 a day - from such infections. Most of them are under the age of five.
Website: here
 

Please go to our fundraising website NOW and donate!!

See the Race website here

See our website here
 
Or if you're on Facebook you can look at our group, Trotters Independent Traders Co. - Rickshaw Run 2008 (the name of our 'team').  

THANK YOU!!!
 
Dom and Simon.