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Friday, October 8, 2010

The Lake Victoria Kayak Exhibition - For the spirit of Adventure

 16th November marks the begining of an epic adventure on Lake Victoria as world kayaking champion Francessco Gambela and his Kenyan counterpart Saif Katwe lead an adventure spanning 300 km over 5 days all for a good cause.
Here is why
for the spirit of Adventure
Mission:
Join us to support Drinking Water and prevention of Malaria through AMREF . Reasons of this Expedition  1- to support AMREF www.amref.org to provide safe drinking water and fight malaria through Mosquito net Campaigns. 2- Promote Water Sports Tourism through kayaking in Lake Victoria the largest Inland lake in the World . 3- to bring attention to the Extreme and dangerous type climate change threat facing this lake The Expedition will be 300km over 5 days using surf ski types of kayaks . We hope to collect funds for buying mosquito nets and Drinking water purification tablets. Each Mosquito net is about 5 US $, but it can save a life of child. Each Purification Tablet is less than 10 US cents but it can stop water borne disease like cholera. You can contribute in 2 ways; 1 - Contribute towards Malaria nets. The 3 (15US $) nets per family will be distributed along the route of the expedition in conjunction with AMREF ; www.amref.org 2- Contribute for the water purification tablets ; 10US $ for one box . We will start in Jinja,Uganda on 16th November and Inshallah finish in 21st November in Kisumu, Kenya For more information and support check out the Lake Victoria Kayak Exhibition page on facebook.
So people,let us support this worthy cause,Pixey Uganda is offering  "Nile Adventures"  itinerarys to bring out the adventurer in you.
contact:
pixey_uganda@yahoo.com

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