My name is Welcome Manganye from Ga-rankuwa ( 35 north of pretoria ) ,Me and Christopher Ndaba from Ga-rankuwa are planning a trip to cycle from Ga-rankuwa to Tanzania mount Kilimanjaro ( approx 4500 km ) we wanna do this in less than 8 weeks.that means we will be doing +/- 100 km a day and we will have rest days in between. We wanna raise funds for our community ,we have a big drug problem,there a drug called nyaope is destroying our youths future, they steal they rob actually they would anything just to smoke this drug.its extremely addictive so they say. This link will give you more info about the ( http://www.tnt.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92:effects-of-nyaope&catid=17:drug-facts&Itemid=48 ). We wanna build a drug rehabilitation center here in Ga-rankuwa or maybe buy a house here and turn in to a rehabilitation center this our dream. I have cycleD from beit brigde ( South Africa and Zimbwe border ) to Durban approx 1400 km, i was not alone though i was with a group of people ,We were doing a climate change awareness campaign , we love our planet this link will give more info and please watch the youtube video im on the sabc news. http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/f1e59380490091ba9849db2e8942a841/Cycling-to-raise-climate-change-awareness-20111109 Christipher Ndaba has walked from Ga-rankuwa to Petermartzburp approx 580km and again he walked from Ga-rankuwa to Cape Town approx 1550 km, he was doing a drug awareness campaign. Link with more info: http://152.111.1.87/argief/berigte/dailysun/2007/11/28/DT/43/DT43longwalk.html I know we going to make this mission to Mount Kilimanjaro,Tanzania i know you are waiting for us with open arms. We have started training with our hardtails mountain bike we have faith.
