I just had to share this with you all. Taken from the Beyond the Bike Facebook group
The man in the photo is Blackson Banda, the cook at Janna School in Ndola, Beyond Ourselves’ first project and the one we visited at the end of the group ride. I first met Blackson last year when I visited with Richard & Tamsin Humes. He is a lovely guy and was super keen to cycle but couldn’t make the group ride. Instead, I was able to give him a lift on Thandie back to his home village on the border of Malawi. For financial reasons (a return bus fare from Ndola is a month’s salary), he hadn’t visited for 13 years and sadly wasn’t able to make his sister’s funeral last month. As such it was an emotional visit for him and a moving one for us. His sister died at the tender age of 35 and leaves 4 double orphans. Blackson is taking his 6 year old niece Catherine back to Ndola and hopes she will be able to attend Janna, thanks to the child sponsorship programme that Beyond Ourselves run. If you want to sponsor a child, £12.50 a month gives kids like Catherine a chance of a brighter future… http://www.beyondourselves.co.uk/sponsor-a-child/
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