Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Extreme responses to the Haiti crisis

There are some really extreme people out there. What is cool is that these guys' extreme efforts are going to help some people who are extremely in need.

Cort Gatliff and Christian Kauffman are two high school seniors who have decided to spend their last semester of high school coasting across America on their bikes to raise money for Haiti. They are starting in Santa Monica, California and cycling all the way to Savannah, Georgia in one month. This means they will have to travel around 700 miles a week and spend 7 hours a day on their bikes. They plan to do homework in hotels at night and have their parents following them by car the whole way. They have set our to raise $50,000 to go towards well building in Haiti, which would allow for 25 wells to be rehabilitated in Haiti. Wow- are you impressed, because I am!



I found this other guy named Chris Juhasz, from St. Louis, who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro this past January. He climbed in Living Water Internationals name to raise money for a well to be built in Tanzania (approximately $16,000).




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