Engineers cycle for charity

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9/6/2009

Sign up for Vietnam to Cambodia challenge

by Claudia Flavell-While

The Angkor Wat temple in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

ENGINEERS Against Poverty, an independent charity that fights poverty and promotes sustainable development, has issued its next challenge: it wants a group of engineers to embark on a cycling trek from Vietnam to Cambodia to raise money for its charitable work.

The Vietnam-Cambodia Cycle Challenge will take participants from Ho Chi Minh city through the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta into Cambodia, where participants will head towards the temple of Angkor Wat.

Money raised will support EAP’s efforts to influence corporate and public policy and help improve education, create jobs and develop sustainable enterprises in some of the world’s poorest countries. EAP’s previous challenge in December 2008 saw 17 volunteers climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, raising £20,000 in the process.