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Home / Tips & ideas / Seasonal / Can you sponsor me for Sport Relief?

Can you sponsor me for Sport Relief?

February 3, 2014 by Gretta Schifano 9 Comments

Joseph, age 11, Ghana. Photo courtesy of Comic Relief.

Joseph, age 11, Ghana. Photo courtesy of Comic Relief.

My son’s 11. When he’s not at school he loves spending time with his friends and playing football. Joseph is also 11. He lives in Ghana and, because of poverty and hunger, works in a gold mine. Children in the mines are exposed to the dangers of pits collapsing, the long term effects on their health of inhaling rock dust and of carrying heavy loads. I can’t begin to imagine my son doing what Joseph has to do. When I read Joseph’s story here it made me cry.

Crying won’t help, but I’m going to do something that might. I’m taking part in a sponsored relay for Sport Relief this Wednesday in London. The money raised for Sport Relief will go to Comic Relief to support their projects in the UK and overseas.

The relay is part of the Team Honk challenge which is carrying a baton over 3,000 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats by blogger power. The baton is criss-crossing the country as it passes from blogger to blogger with the aim of raising £20,000 for Sport Relief.

We’re using any way we can to transport the baton: walking, cycling, running, pram pushing – I think an elephant is even involved at some point. I’ll be whizzing along with the London team on a scooter (below) which Micro Scooters have donated for the purpose and which will then be auctioned off to add to the fund-raising target (let me know if you’d like to bid for it):

Micro Scooter. Copyright Gretta Schifano

Micro Scooter. Copyright Gretta Schifano

I’ll try not to fall off. The London part of the relay has a Monopoly theme and we’ll be trying to cover as much of the Monopoly board as we can. I’ll be scootering in the unholy combination of an official Sport Relief red onesie, to keep me warm, and a top hat, in a nod to the Monopoly theme. Sorry about that.

Money from Comic Relief has helped give Joseph and other children working in the mines access to schooling. Joseph says that he’d like to be a maths teacher when he grows up. I hope that the support he’s now getting will help that happen.

If you’d like to help children like Joseph then please sponsor us via the London Team Honk Sport Relief giving page or text HONK to 70005 and donate £5. Thank you!

Joseph, age 11, at school. Photo courtesy of Comic Relief.

Joseph, age 11, at school. Photo courtesy of Comic Relief.

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Categories: Seasonal
Tags: Comic Relief, Micro Scooters, Sport Relief

About Gretta Schifano

I'm a freelance journalist and blogger specialising in family travel with teenagers, trips when parents manage to travel without their kids, and 50+ travel. I also write about vegetarian travel, parenting teenagers, adoption, SEN, ADHD and anxiety. My work's been published by the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, National Geographic Traveller, Lonely Planet and others. I've lived and worked in Italy and Spain and am now based in rural south-east England with my husband, adoptive and birth kids and our dog. I previously worked as a social action radio producer for the BBC.

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  1. PinkOddy says

    March 23, 2014 at 9:04 am

    Great post I cannot imagine any of my children living in these conditions and doing what these children do.
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  2. Mummy Barrow says

    February 16, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    From Joseph and everybody else supported by a project funded by Comic Relief. Thank you. Life changing amounts of money have been raised so far.

    You should be really proud of all you have done
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    • Gretta Schifano says

      February 17, 2014 at 3:03 pm

      Well thank you to you guys for starting us all off – you’re inspirational.

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  3. Mammasaurus says

    February 8, 2014 at 12:22 am

    Such huge thank yous for getting involved and support in – that money raised changes lives and being part of a community rolling up their sleeves and getting involved is a wonderful thing indeed xx
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    • Gretta Schifano says

      February 8, 2014 at 4:35 pm

      Thank you to you, Tanya and Penny for starting the whole thing off, the three of you are inspirational and I’m proud to be involved.

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  4. Sarah Ebner says

    February 5, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Well done Gretta! Hope you haven’t got too wet. Off to sponsor Team Honk London now 🙂
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    • Gretta Schifano says

      February 5, 2014 at 6:34 pm

      Thank you Sarah. I’m home now and am slowly thawing out!

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  5. Franglaise Mummy says

    February 3, 2014 at 7:08 pm

    Great post! Think of the changes we’ll be able to help make!
    Franglaise Mummy recently posted…Please don’t buy me a birthday cardMy Profile

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    • Gretta Schifano says

      February 3, 2014 at 7:11 pm

      Thank you – I really hope we can help.

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