Challenge yourself. Challenge poverty

WideWorld teams with aid agency

In our first charity partnership since launching in May 2009, WideWorld has linked up with the leading overseas aid agency CARE International. For the next 12 months, we'll be working together to promote the 2010 CARE Challenge Series, a series of gruelling adventure races across Great Britain, France, and even the deserts of Sinai.

Anyone with an appetite for adventure will find an outdoor event to suit them in this series. Comprising thirteen intrepid challenges in the UK, France and Egypt, it's aimed at individuals as well as corporate teams. Events include the classic 3 Peaks Challenge – a tough 24-hour event, tackling the three highest mountains in Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Scafell Pike) and Wales (Snowdon), all in 24 hours. Or the Yorkshire 3 Peaks, taking on the best of the North. Participants can even take on the Scottish 3 Peaks, combining hiking and history. If three mountains in one day aren't enough, there is also the CARE 24 Peaks Challenge – a gruelling twenty-four peaks in as many hours!

Sinai challenge

Individual events include such adventures as cycling from London to Brighton or – to test endurance – Paris. Also on offer are hiking, biking and canoeing adventure challenges, a one-day adventure race, and a London-based ‘walkathon’.  Finally, for the first time ever, CARE is offering a tailor-made 3-day hiking challenge in Egypt’s Sinai desert!

People taking on the challenge in the desert will be taking on one of the most forbidding terrains in the world, steeped in history and providing a unique opportunity to combine adventure and charity. But even if you can't make it all the way to the Middle East - every event in the CARE Challenge Series is an exciting and enjoyable way to support a fantastic cause.

Who are CARE?

CARE works in 70 countries, helping 65 million people a year find a route out of poverty. CARE is currently working in Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines assisting families and communities devastated by the recent earthquake and typhoons.

The CARE Challenge Series aims to raise a million pounds to support the charity’s work. Ninety-one pence in every pound goes directly to support CARE’s overseas work, so participants can be sure their efforts are worthwhile.

The CARE Challenge team offer participants training and fundraising support from the moment they sign up to beyond the date of their challenge. And with fifteen years’ experience in running outdoor fundraising events, CARE will ensure a safe and enjoyable event.

“We’re delighted to be supporting the 2010 CARE Challenge Series," says WideWorld's UK editor Ed Chipperfield. "It offers a wide range of challenges of varying difficulty, each a fantastic experience in the great outdoors. Most importantly, we feel CARE’s work fits well with our own ethos. Being a worldwide charity helping people in the poorest countries to deal with challenges of their own, from climate change to education, healthcare to agriculture, their target of increasing understanding and spreading practical assistance that keeps giving back is totally in line with our think

To get involved and to see details of 2010 Challenge events, visit www.carechallenge.org.uk

Alternatively, you can call the CARE Challenge Team on 020 7934 9470

2010 CARE Challenge event dates are as follows:

27 April: CARE Adventure Race
10th April: CARE London to Brighton Cycle Challenge
8-9 May: CARE 3 Peaks Scotland
22 May: Prima Solutions Adventure Challenge
12-13 June:CARE 3 Peaks Challenge supported by Computer Weekly
27-28 June:CARE 24 Peaks Challenge
3 July: CARE Construction Challenge supported by Contract Journal and New Civil Engineer
1-4 July: CARE London to Paris Cycle Challenge
4 September: New Media Challenge supported by New Media Age
11-12 September: CARE 3 Peaks Challenge supported by City AM
18 September: CARE Yorkshire 3 Peaks
TBC in October: CARE Walkathon
22-25 October: CARE Egypt Adventure challenge