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| Team #: 19 |
Hunger |
| Competitor |
Athletic Background |
Wayne Cassidy
Woodbridge, Ontario
Age: 33
Treasury Manager
TEAM CAPTAIN |
Paddle Pool Splashfest Champ, Master of the Butt First Waterfall Drop Whitewater Technique and Pre-race Panic Expert. |
Kevin Hakl
Toronto, Ontario
Age: 33
Bottle Washer |
Dodgeball, soccer, 3 legged string-O. |
Veronica Jarlehag
Calgary, Alberta
Age: 34
Business Process Analyst |
Have been AR racing for a few years now and I am looking forward to a great season. Mountain biking, snowboarding, skiing, hockey, soccer and more back up my athletic background. Growing up in Sweden, I learned to love the outdoors and any adventure that came my way. |
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| Team Profile |
We are racing to bring awareness to the plight of those stricken by poverty around the world and to encourage action. Canadians are some of the wealthiest people on earth as a result of living in a wealthy nation.
REFUSE to do Nothing!
We have a responsibility to those who are less fortunate to help them rise above their difficult circumstances.
Hunger:
-More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day...300 million are children.
-One child every eight seconds dies from malnutrition.
-There is enough food, experience and technology to end the problem of world hunger...the difficulty is the inequitable distribution of food and wealth.
HIV/AIDS:
-HIV/AIDS is now the fourth largest global killer and the largest killer in Africa.
-Six young people are infected with HIV?the virus that causes AIDS?every minute.
-Anti-retroviral drugs help extend the lives of people living with AIDS. These drugs are readily available in Canada, but a year?s supply of the drugs in under developed countries can cost as much as 2.5 times a person?s annual income.
Child labour:
-Child labour is work done by children under the age of 15 that restricts or damages their physical, emotional, intellectual, social or spiritual growth as children.
-An estimated 246 million children are engaged in exploitative child labour, about half of them are working full time.
-8 million children work in the worst forms of child labour?prostitution, slavery, bonded labour and armed conflict.
-In developing countries, every fourth child lives in a family with an income of less than $1 a day. |
| Sponsors |
World Vision - 30 Hour Famine
http://www.famine.ca/
Storm Adventure Racing
http://www.stormthetrent.com/
Adidas-Salomon Canada
http://www.adidas-salomon.ca/
Bicycle Depot
829 Albion Road (east of Islington)
416-741-1452
Running Free
http://www.runningfree.ca/ |
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