I’m quite ordinary, really. I’m a 24 year old girl from Sydney, Australia who still feels like she’s about 12 and procrastinates far too much.
I have the entire collection of the Baby-Sitters Club books, have had a crush on Ron Weasley since the first Harry Potter book, and my goal in life is to one day put “Geographer” on my business card.
I had a stroke in December 2008, and that’s why this website was started: to help raise money for the National Stroke Foundation.
The National Stroke Foundation is an organisation that works to prevent stroke, do research about stroke, and help people who have had strokes. On the “How you can help” part of the website, there are a few things you can do. The one that jumped out at me and said, “Do me!” was this one: Cycling in Vietnam.
It is a challenge to go on a sightseeing tour through Vietnam on bicycle. It is a two week trip in March 2010, with four and a half days in a row of cycling (about 80-100km a day), and some sightseeing along the way.
Each participant needed to fundraise $6500, and about $3000 or $4000 will go to the Stroke Foundation.
I raised abut $14,500 for the NSF and went on the most amazing adventure in March this year. I’m now in Arusha, Tanzania volunteering at the Umoja Centre .
This adventure started with Cushing’s Disease, then the stroke, then the fundraising and training that consumed my life until March 2010. The adventure as moved from Australia to S.E. Asia and has landed me in Africa. Love it.
If, for some bizarre reason, you want to contact me, you can reach me at jennigan at gmail dot com.
