Team: Congo Canoe Challenge
Event: Congo Canoe Challenge
Event Date: 09 Dec 08

Congo Canoe Challenge

My target: $20,000.00Online total: $2,200.00 AUD

A moment in time on the mighty Congo River

Thanks for giving a hand UP, not a hand out!

07 Aug 08 11:37 AM
Posted by Lucy Hobgood-Brown
For the third time sisters Lucy Hobgood-Brown and Anne Zolnor will embark on an 800-kilometre fundraising journey on three vast rivers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to reach the remote village of Lotumbe (where their father was born to educational missionaries and where they spent their own childhood).

The 17-hour trip in a motorized dugout canoe will help raise funds for the rehabilitation of a guesthouse in the village, which will provide adult education classroom facilities and lodging space for short term visitors as well as to buy medical supplies.

Lotumbe is a regional hub in the heart of Congo's rainforest. Accessible only by river or jungle paths, the village is home to a dynamic Congolese women's NGO called Fondation Lucie Otaenga (FLO) that works with a non-profit co-founded by Anne, Lucy and their friend Betsy Brill. HandUp Congo (www.handupcongo.org) collaborates with the grassroots women's NGO on a range of sustainable community development initiatives. These include an experimental vegetable garden, a sewing school and a community loan fund.

The Congo Canoe Challenge is a tribute to the resilient Congolese people, most of whom cover long distances on the river WITHOUT the luxury of a motorized canoe!

CNEC Partners International

CNEC Partners International is a Christian aid and mission agency. We support local people in developing countries as they struggle to see transformation in their own lives and those of their neighbours.

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$2200.00

Team Members
Lucy Hobgood-brown $2,200.00 AUD
Congo Canoe Challenge’s Supporters:
Brent Carryer 16 Dec 08 donation $100.00 AUD Have a great journey
Sue Liu 16 Dec 08 donation $200.00 AUD Lucy - From Zulu's Candles for Community - Selling 133 candles with a $1.50 donation to you = $200. I hope to bring you more - as I sell more candles in the 2009
Cleve 04 Dec 08 donation $50.00 AUD Well done mate!
Derryn Heilbuth 03 Dec 08 donation $50.00 AUD You are truly an inspiration for all of us born in Africa but living elsewhere
Jenn Roberts 01 Dec 08 donation $50.00 AUD Good Luck Lucy!!
Keith 27 Nov 08 donation $100.00 AUD best luck !
Haley 26 Nov 08 donation $200.00 AUD I wish I could send you a cushion! Good on you girls.
patsy 26 Nov 08 donation $100.00 AUD thankyou for doing this
Mark and Mary Henderson 26 Nov 08 donation $100.00 AUD Have a Primus for us.
Ellen Boneparth 25 Nov 08 donation $25.00 AUD This is a fantastic project. I wish my contribution could be ten times the size. Travel safely -- Best, Ellen
Rory in New York 25 Nov 08 donation $50.00 AUD Fantastic project!
Wendy Hughes Chuck 24 Nov 08 donation $50.00 AUD Good luck, Lucy! Does 800 km in a canoe make you saddle sore?
Judy 20 Nov 08 donation $50.00 AUD Wishing you all the best on this journey Lucy-we're thinking of you here in Alaska!
17 Nov 08 donation $50.00 AUD
Chepa 12 Nov 08 donation $100.00 AUD Lucy, you are my hero.
Clay O'Brien 12 Nov 08 donation $100.00 AUD I am a great believer in the Hand Up principle. Opportunity International should be operating in the DRC soon! All the best.
Beth from Alaska 11 Nov 08 donation $50.00 AUD Lucy & Anne, I am moved and thankful for your mission to help Congolese women out of poverty. I hope your trip is safe & profitable.
Alison Verhoeven 09 Nov 08 donation $100.00 AUD Amities toujours!
Cliff Seeto 07 Nov 08 donation $50.00 AUD Have a safe journey Lucy!
Kim Vanden Hengel 06 Nov 08 donation $200.00 AUD Allez en avant copine