For the past 2 months you can’t have failed to notice twitter being awash with the hashtag ‘TeamHonkRelay’. Has hundreds of bloggers aim to raise £20,000 for Sport Relief 2014, well I’m pleased to say they’ve smashed that target! But what does that have to do with Tanzania?
Well it’s simple to celebrate international women’s day 2014 #iwd2014 the 3 founders of Team Honk Annie of mammasaurus penny from aresidence and Tanya from mummybarrow are currently in Tanzania learning about some of the great work sport relief does, and especially how donations to Sport Relief last year have created female entrepreneurs and #lastingchange for women, their families and communities and beyond
When they asked if bloggers would like to share a postcard and some information about what they’d seen I put my hand straight up, to help such an amazing cause.
So here is mine:
This is Joyce

Tanya, Annie and Penny have told me this about Joyce:

Through mentoring and training the Gatsby Trust have helped Joyce expand her poultry business from just a few chicks to now having 300. She has also now built an extension to house another 400 which should be arriving next week. The training that Joyce has received has enabled her to make her own feed, thereby saving her money, and also to ensure the feed is healthy. It has also taught her to recognise signs of disease in her chicks to such an extend that she now has a completely healthy clutch. Other poultry keepers in her area now phone her for advice and training. The network of women is now in a much more powerful position to broker deals to sell to supermarkets as they can promise supply, which Joyce couldn’t do on her own. Joyce is supporting her family and is able to pay for her son to attend a boarding school.

How can you help?
So now you’ve read all this, you want to help but you’re not sure how? Well that’s easy:

5 MINS Please RT, share and support any updates you see with the #lastingchange hashtag.

DONATE You can help create #lastingchange by sponsoring #teamhonkrelay for Sport Relief

GET INVOLVED Join up for your local Sport Relief event here.

Thanks for helping to create #lastingchange