Three Peaks Challenge
I have just completed the Three Peaks Challenge, walking 26 miles in 11 hours and 15 minutes as I want to raise funds and awareness to ensure that every child is able to go to school. It was an amazing experience and I enjoyed the company of my fellow workers on that blustery Saturday. I got off lightly with only one blister so I think that is good news to share and my feet are resting nicely now.
When I was walking the Three Peaks with my team mates I was thinking of all the children who have not been able to learn during COVID19 as they do not have access to the internet. There are many millions of children during normal times who are not able to go to school, because of war, natural disaster, displacement and poverty.
Did you know that around 463m pupils have no access to online schooling and did not have access to education before the COVID19 pandemic?
If you haven’t already supported me, there is still time to support this important cause and make a difference to childrens lives: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/funda-sinan
There is still time to support #EducationForAll. Please support me to make a difference to children's lives.
I believe that It is so important that every child should be able to access a quality education. The Steve Sinnott Foundation has been doing amazing work during COVID19 to ensure that some of the most disadvantaged children can continue learning safely.
These are the projects that you will be supporting https://www.stevesinnottfoundation.org.uk/projects
Thank you for your support so far, you have raised £395 together and you have all been amazing.
Funda Sinan
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Funda Sinan • September 21, 2020
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This week our CEO Ann and Jude (SSF Ambassador) visited schools in Coventry and heard about the wonderful work that students are doing to foster peace and community connection, as part of Coventry Arts Week. We visited Lyng Hall school in the morning and met with Ms Hagan and four of the schools UNESCO ASPnet ambassadors. They told us all about their recent project. The students took their art and poetry to the 80th Anniversary symposium in Ypres and Dunkirk. They shared with us some of the poetry they had written together with the students on the field trip and some of their own poems too. They also shared their future plans for working with their local primary school on peace and community. We also had the privilege of joining Ms Hagans class where they were looking at Caliban’s tale. Here is one of the students work
For my birthday this year I had the honour to walk 60 miles (yes it was a big 0 birthday) over 3 days to support the essential work of the Steve Sinnott Foundation of which I am CEO. Education in its many forms is essential for all of us to thrive and make the most of life's opportunities. The Foundation works to ensure that as many children and adults as possible across the globe can access the human right of education. The plan was to walk with friends and supporters who I hoped would keep me smiling along the way and it felt like a good way to make use of the Foundation’s “Get Moving” campaign. Here's how my Get Moving Fundraiser went on the first day. The 13th June I started my walk in London by walking from Barnet to west Hampstead and visiting my sister at her shop at Tree of Life where I got served a nice iced coffee to keep me going.
