Riding for the poor
After five months of training, four cyclists riding from St. Janan Luwum Secondary School in Kabalagala to Cape Town in South Africa have set off to raise funds for the school.
By Harriet Birungi
After five months of training, four cyclists riding from St. Janan Luwum Secondary School in Kabalagala to Cape Town in South Africa have set off to raise funds for the school.
John Rendel, the UK representative to Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS), an organisation building secondary schools in Africa, the funds raised will be used to set up a school, science and computer laboratories at St. Janan.
“PEAS builds low cost secondary schools to widen access to education and also sponsors needy students.
For instance, at St. Janan which has 750 students, 289 are sponsored,†Rendel added.
To ensure more students benefit from PEAS, the organisation is planning to build five schools in three years.
The cyclists in the 5,000-mile expedition are James Townsed, a teacher, Oliver Hayes, a lawyer, Rupert Nicholson, a surveyor, and Jamie Feilden, a teacher.
They will go through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho and reach Cape Town on December 18.
Mike Kironde, the headteacher of St. Janan, says founding the school four years ago has helped many poor students acquire a secondary education.
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After five months of training, four cyclists riding from St. Janan Luwum Secondary School in Kabalagala to Cape Town in South Africa have set off to raise funds for the school.
John Rendel, the UK representative to Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS), an organisation building secondary schools in Africa, the funds raised will be used to set up a school, science and computer laboratories at St. Janan.
“PEAS builds low cost secondary schools to widen access to education and also sponsors needy students.
For instance, at St. Janan which has 750 students, 289 are sponsored,†Rendel added.
To ensure more students benefit from PEAS, the organisation is planning to build five schools in three years.
The cyclists in the 5,000-mile expedition are James Townsed, a teacher, Oliver Hayes, a lawyer, Rupert Nicholson, a surveyor, and Jamie Feilden, a teacher.
They will go through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho and reach Cape Town on December 18.
Mike Kironde, the headteacher of St. Janan, says founding the school four years ago has helped many poor students acquire a secondary education.
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