Project Report
| May 13, 2020
YouMeWe NPO Update from KIWL 2020 Bike Ride
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KIWL 2020 Ride Sponsors
Dear KIWL 2020 Ride friends and family,
As you may know we have postponed the 500km ride due to the current COVID 19 precautions but will definitely have the ride in October 2020.
Despite COVID19, KIWL has still raised an incredible Y6,586,000 this year online and offline to date thanks to donations from you as supporters, and corporate sponsors who despite their own business challenges, believe in the education of kids in care.
We have responded to the children homes requests whether it be for laptops for college graduates who had to start school but online and needed their own device in both Tokyo and Sendai. We have also shipped ten computers to Taiyo Gakuen in Iwate-ken so the kids could access online material. Matsubaen in Itabashi-ku has installed online learning platforms we were able to continue to study. St.Francis had SKYPE labs created with the equipment we installed so they can continue Digital Citizenships lessons thrice a week.
We have also received many masks donations and to the degree we could, bought both masks and alcohol for the homes who requested it.
Needless to say, being in lockdown for the homes unexpectedly from April has caused many challenges especially for the kids who are not able to go out and exercise regularly. We purchased drones for the homes that are allowing kids to go out periodically.
We have also taken this opportunity to enroll in a Global Challenge of the kids and staff along with donors and volunteers to walk around the earth virtually launching May 27th entering steps from the 500 donated pedometers into an online system which kicks off in Egypt giving the kids a geography and history lesson of each country they walk to virtually. The challenge lasts for 100 days and allows over two dozen other exercises to be converted to steps in case they are not able to get in 10,000 steps a day.
The KIWL team members are still training when possible and safe. Social distancing adding to the challenge but this gives us a longer runway to prepare to reach over the four days and 500km from Yuzawa to Sendai. Please see some footage from a test ride done by our Knight Egon.
Thank you for your support and efforts, 2020 will be remembered as a particularly difficult year, but at least KIWL is making a success of supporting marginalized kids with your help and dedication.
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2019 riders
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2019 final destination throwback.
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