bike tour

So, you are reading this blog, which means either

a: you like me, at least sometimes
b: you are related to me and feel obligated
c: you are interested in africa and peace corps-style work
d: you were searching for helmeted guinea fowl and ended up here.

If you are one of those for whom either a or c is true, or b and you're feeling particularly obligated today, you may be interested in opportunities to support the work other volunteers and I are doing here in Burkina!

I'm on the Committee for Gender and Development, which is one of the only sources of funding for small-scale volunteer projects that promote gender equality. If you do a girls' camp or a maternal health workshop, there are not a lot of sources of funding available, and volunteers often pay expenses out of their (fairly meager) living allowance. So we fundraise to be able to give this money directly out to volunteers for their projects! And the most recent, most awesome fundraiser that we (okay, Marita) came up with is a bike tour! Volunteers are biking around Burkina- almost 1200 miles total, and we are hoping for sponsors! I am not personally an official biker, but I'll definitely be tagging along for a couple legs of the tour, and not only am I a member of GAD, I'm also a (hopeful) applicant for funding!

It would be awesome if you would help us out, but it's even cool if you just check out the website and see some of the work other volunteers do. Plus, I'm in the GAD family portrait on the main page. And those are my friends in all of the other pictures. Don't take my word for it! duh Duh Duh

http://burkinabiketour.blogspot.com/