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**@wo*****.uk.
3 peaks challenge
Nicky and Chris Lopez, whose family were friends of Workneh, Aster and Yadata, have set themselves the challenge of climbing the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales within 24 hours on the weekend of 1st and 2nd of July. Nicky has already raised almost half his targeted amount through running fitness classes.
If you would like to support them in raising money for a school for Oromia click on the image above which will take you to the JustGiving page. You can also set up one-off or regular donations by visiting our Donations page.
