The JOGGLING Project

Hi All,

I know I said we would decelerate the whizzing fundraising last week but we're waiting for the director of TALIBERTE to return to Senegal after his month-long educational training in the US! In the meantime, who is going to be so magnanimous as to bump us over 4,000 mark!!

HIP HIP HORRAY!

This past Sunday, on a brisk morning in Paris, the last and final phase of the JOGGLING PROJECT was accomplished. Having gotten off to a groggy and slow start, I eventually covered the entire 42 Kilometers/26.2 mile distance in 4hrs exactly. With 50,000 participants, finding empty juggling space was a perpetual challenge and though I did not finish as fast I had hoped, I am happy to report, I dropped the balls only ten times.

Beyond question, what will always remain as the most impressive accomplishment, however, is how much $$$$ we've raised for TALIBERTE !! Truthfully, at times, our fundraising was ferocious! In the beginning, I had set the mark at $2,000, convinced that was going to be too ambitious.. Within the first two weeks, we had already ate that for lunch. Today, inching towards $4,000, we nearly DOUBLED our original goal! $4,000 frankly means a lot. The outreach center for street children in Senegal, with which we're supporting, will have an unprecedented opportunity to renovate and strengthen its resources. Please follow www.facebook.com/KissOnTheNeckIceCream in the next couple of months to see exactly how the funds are being used.

Next week, when I return to Gloucester to begin preparations for another season at KISS, I will terminate the GoFundMe portal and collect the money. With that said, we will be accepting donations for one more week! Help us tiptoe past $4,000!

The experience has been very heartening for me. I discovered first hand the preponderance of generosity out there and the immensity of social-media and crowd-funding to promote and rally around creative causes in ways never known before.

I will continue to support TALIBERTE through JOGGLING in the future but for this week, hobbling up and down the Paris underground, I'll be asking for my own support--from the hand railing

Thank you,
Richard

A humungous thanks to the Brookwood school for ever so kindly and thoughtfully donating to the zany pursuits of an alumnus! I'm sure I speak for the entire millennium graduating class, time flies!!