Cycling for a cause

The Saint Paul Classic fundraiser is back!  Along with other Give Us Wings supporters and staff (and several hundred other folks) I'll be riding my bicycle 32 miles through St. Paul, along the Mississippi River, up to the Mounds, to and around Lake Phalen, and ending where I started at Lake Como on Sunday, September 12th.

I'm doing this to raise awareness and funds for Give Us Wings, and am looking to raise at least $150.  If you're interested in sponsoring me and supporting Give Us Wings, please donate to this fundraiser!  Any amount is welcome - if you don't know what to give, how about a dollar per mile?

Everything raised goes to Give Us Wings, less any transaction fees.  Give Us Wings supports communities and individual families in the Tororo District in Uganda.  4 out of 5 households in this area are engaged in subsistence farming. Support includes:

•  medical (see clinic above, built by Give Us Wings in partnership with St. John's Episcopal Church in St. Paul, and under continued development, most recently with an inpatient ward), 
• educational (providing children, especially girls, with scholarships to a well-regarded boarding school. Their families also benefit directly via health insurance for the clinic), 
• business (loans to village co-operatives to assist with startup costs, and training to ensure businesses are successful)

This is one of the children whose education is sponsored by the Give Us Wings Family to Family program, along with her grandmother.

Here I'm delivering a mattress and blanket to a family in 2018, on behalf of Give Us Wings.

This family later joined the Family to Family program, with one daughter becoming sponsored.

(The hut behind us is of mud construction, and 4 of the children share it with their mother.)