How You can Help

In order for this to work there are a few things we need.
1. Jobs we can do in return for donations to book aid international.
2. Offers of a meal, fuel or accomodation along our route.
3. Spread the word to your local, statewide or to the national media
Click below to find out more about how to help.

As many of you know we have visited a few impoverished countries, and in meeting the children of these places, we vowed to commit ourselves to a do a good deed to help them. It was Anne's 30th birthday a weeks days ago and Gareth 31st too, so now is a good a time as any to do some good for child literacy, giving kids a chance at having a better life. We are nowhere near friends and family, but we're sure you guys would buy us a pint or take us out to dinner for our birthdays, if you had the chance, so we ask this of you instead.

• Leave a comment after one of the posts. If people can see that many others are following this blog then it encourages more interest.
• Either become a follower, by following the instructions, or subscribe to the blog.
• As a birthday treat we ask a big favour. To donate at least the price of a pint to the charity we are backing on our adventure starting Sept 21st, through our webpage, next to the total target of £10,000. It is our goal to do something for a worthy cause.
• If you are a really generous mate, then you may also want to consider donating on the other button (the one that goes to the fuel fund), the price of a chaser for after that pint, at the top of the webpage, to contribute to our fuel and emergency fund. This fund will be used should the occasion arise we need a little monetary help to get us out of any pickles we may come across, for example, to eliminate the chance of us being in the middle of nowhere without fuel, dying of scurvy and dehydration in the desert wearing nought but Hessian potato sacks (We will endeavour to not use this fund as we want to add this to the total Book Aid fund on arrival to Brisbane in January).
• Please ask the people in your office/work to take a look at our sight and maybe donate.
• Maybe you could send out an envelope round the office then use your debit card to donate the amount collected to our charity. (Please remember to donate through our web page so we get closer to our target and we know how much money our colossal event has raised for child literacy.)
• Please pass this mail or your version of it to all the people in your address book, the only way this thing is going to work is if we get as many people reading our blog as possible. Please please pass this on and add your own personal message to the top.
• If you can’t open the blog page in you work etc, then please open it at home.
• If you have any positive comments to make about our trek, then please leave them on the website for other people and the media to see.
• Help in any of the other ways stated in the full post It's a Lifestlye Choice.
  
  This is an immense challenge. We have to convince people to give us everything we need.
  But at the end of our adventure we should have tried our hands at a great number of jobs, tried many activities, written up reviews and articles for many services, places and people, collected a deal of money for charity, gotten ourselves in a great deal of newspapers, magazines and hopefully TV, and we will no doubt have learned a great deal. We must succeed in this challenge, if we don’t we starve! However, the worst case senario is that we have raised awareness and money for Book Aid and died starving, but happy in the knowledge we tried.
  
  You can find two different donation buttons. I hope you can donate to one fund if not both. After all, to succeed in some of life’s biggest challenges you have to surpass being as cheeky as you ‘CAN’ you have to be As Cheeky As You ‘CAN’T’!
  
  Thank you.