By Michael Clemons | Founder
We want to thank everyone and update on the KIWL 2020 Bike Ride if you have not been updated already. 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone and all of these challenges have continually been taken into consideration throughout the year in the preparation for the ride which was postponed from June to October and then the decision to effectively cancel the ride in its original format and hold it in June 2021. Instead, the riders have focused on an alternative challenge, in a positive sense, The KIWL 500:5000 October Challenge 2020. The riders and teams will ride 500km throughout the month of October with a climb of 5,000m. There is a Strava page set up to track and prizes for the team members who:
-First to ride 500 km AND complete 5,000 meters of climbing in October
-Furthest cumulative km ridden, Oct 1-31
-Most meters climbed, Oct 1-31
-Furthest distance by first-year KIWL 500 2020 rider, Oct 1-31
It just so happens that during the year the owners of the Yokohama Marinos heard about the efforts of YouMeWe NPO and agreed to match funding to the link below so we have redirected donations to the below link which will be matched up to 55,000 GBP until the end of September.
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/cityzens-giving-for-recovery-yokohama
All efforts by KIWL members have raised over 10,000,000 JPY in 2020 on and offline and the funds have been deployed across the homes in Tohoku, Tokyo, Yokoyama, Nagoya, and soon in Hiroshima. YouMeWe has supported college students who had left the home for university but had to return due to COVID so we made sure they had laptops to do their studies remotely in Sendai and Tokyo. We installed 10 laptops in the Taiyo Gakuen in Iwate and bought tablets and subscribed to learning software for kids studying from home. We taught remotely weekly until we were allowed to meet the kids at St.Francis with a mask and continue to meet them weekly for Digital Citizenship classes. Thousands of masks were received and donated along with alcohol spray. From May 27 until September 3, over 100 days 161 kids, staff, volunteers and donors walked around the earth virtually for 100 days tracking 100 steps a day and entering into an online system which tracked where they were virtually and gave them a geography and history lesson about places they visited online. This was a great example of health and technology. There is much more ahead and in an interesting way, the work YouMeWe has been doing proved to be useful if not ahead of its time and the equipment installed in the homes along with the WIFI has helped them with their remote working and to meet their tutors online. We endeavor to continue our support and have assigned roles internally to the leagues of volunteers who have also reached out from all over to help us.
Thank you again for your continued support and we look forward to updating you about the KIWL 500:5000 in October!
Regards,
Michael Clemons
YouMeWe NPO
Founder and KIWL member 2020
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