Friends and family of Workneh Dechasa met in Finsbury Park, London in glorious sunshine for a picnic to remember his life and early death three years ago.
The event collected over £500 in donations and sales for the charity.
Fundraising challenge approaches target.
Nicky Lopez, who has already raised £2500 for WDEF by running the Paris marathon has taken on a new challenge which has so far raised £3466 towards a target of £5000.
The challenge was to climb the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales within 24 hours. With his brother Chris they achieved the challenge within the timeframe in spite of some classic British midsummer weather. The video will give you a feel of it!
If you’re impressed with their achievements Nicky’sJustGiving page is still receiving donations.
We’d like to encourage other supporters of WDEF who are interested in raising funds to build the school in Oromia by undertaking challenges like this to get in touch. Maybe next time there’ll be a larger group sporting Workneh tee-shirts and raising some serious money for the project. Contact us at in**@*********rg.uk.
Workneh Dechasa Memorial Picnic 2022
At 2pm next Saturday 9th July 2022 the friends and family of Workneh Dechasa will be gathering to remember Workneh, meet old friends and share our plans to raise funds to build a school in his memory in his birthplace near Guder, Oromia.
Picnic venue
Finsbury Park close to the Endymion Gate, (also called New River gate and pictured above) Endymion Road, London N4 1EH.
There are good public transport links.
Join us and share this invite as widely as you can among potential supporters. Note the time is different from the original “Save the date” message.
