CSD’s Tony Theissen has taken on the Starlight Children’s Foundation “Tour de Kids” cycling challenge to raise money for sick children – you can lend your support by clicking the link here.
According to Theissen, Tour de Kids is a self-paced cycling challenge for the month of September to ride any designated distance to raise money for sick kids at the Starlight Children’s Foundation an individual or part of a team.
Founded in 2001 by 4 friends who have a passion for cycling and wanted to help others, Tour de Kids has raised $A8.5M and helped 218,000 sick kids to date and Theissen said that while he’s known of Starlight for a number of years and was touched by its focus and how help is delivered to kids.
“As this year has been a challenging one for so many people on so many fronts, I wanted to do something different and raise some money for Starlight,” Theissen said.
“My goal is to put a smile on the kids dials, to help them forget they’re sick for a while and have some fun with the crew of the Starlight foundation.
“The target has always been 1000 kilometres and the fundraising goal got peddling at $1000 and I kept on increasing the target as the dollar value was met – to date I’ve completed just over 851km and have raised $15,000.
“I can’t describe how I feel about the donations received from friends, family, work colleagues, system integrators, competitors, consultants and end users – I’m just delighted by the generosity of the industry – I had no idea we could make this big a difference to the lives of sick kids.”
Security industry people interested in supporting sick kids can contribute to this great initiative via the link here.
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