Please help me supporting Oxfam Germany!

UPDATE – NEW PAYMENT METHODS AVAILABLE!!

Dear friends, family, colleagues and other supporters, 

After more than three years, the time has come again: As mentioned in the previous post, my bike is calling, and I’ll go on a cycling tour again.  

An appeal for everyone – Please support my fundraising action:

http://www.helpedia.de/spenden-aktionen/lejog

Even though challenges and possible pain can be expected, I’m pretty sure that I’ll enjoy the tour very much. Despite that, or actually because of it, I want to use this “non-everyday-activity” to support a charity. The fact that I’ll be able to cycle all over Britain for two weeks just like that, reminds me of all those amongst us who have to cope with completely different issues than answering questions such as “How to get from Gatwick Airport to Land’s End?”, “Are 14 days enough for the planned tour?” or “Should I bring my tent or sleep inside in B&B’s and Youth Hostels?”.

One of the independent, non-governmental aid organisations whose aim is to minimise poverty and injustice through advocacy campaigns, development programmes and emergency response is Oxfam. Whilst very well-known and popular in the UK, Oxfam is based in 13 other countries as well. One of these other affiliates within the confederation is Oxfam Deutschland (Oxfam Germany). More on http://www.oxfam.de/ (German site) [site of Oxfam International: http://www.oxfam.org/].

In connection with my cycle tour, I want to support the efforts of this organisation, such as help after the Pakistan flood or the Haiti earthquake, improvement of labour conditions in third-world countries, campaigns against the negative aspects of climate change, and a lot more. And as more people are able to have a greater impact than an individual person, my target is to collect 1 Euro per mile that I’m going to cycle. That adds up to 1,000 miles = 1,000 € (approx. £830 or US $1,320). Whilst I’ll take care of the 1,000 miles (approx. 1,600km), I’ll very much depend on your help to reach the ambitious target sum.

It’s all pretty easy – even it’s is all in German:
For holders of a German bank account: Just click on http://www.helpedia.de/spenden-aktionen/lejog, then click on the big, red button “Jetzt spenden”, enter your name in the first field, select the amount you want to donate in the second field (or “Freie Eingabe” if your amount isn’t shown), and feel free to enter a message in the last field; then click on the now slightly smaller red button “Jetzt spenden”, and that’s it! You’ll be able to pay through direct debit from a German bank account

For all those of you who don’t have a German bank account, I’ve set up two other alternatives which will make it possible for you to make your donation from outside of Germany:

Option 1:
You can transfer money onto a German bank account which I’ve set up solely for that purpose (it can also be used for payments from abroad!). I’ll forward your donation including other entries to Helpedia online then. Therefore, please include the following two things in the reference/purpose of payment section of your bank transfer which I’m going to copy onto the Helpedia site:
“name” as you want to have it displayed on the website
“comment” (e.g. “Save journey” or similar)
The details of that purpose-bound bank account are (IBAN and BIC are to be used for foreign bank transfers):
Owner of the account: Martin Karl
Account no.: 40233330
Sort code: 74250000
Name of the bank: Sparkasse Niederbayern-Mitte
IBAN: DE33742500000040233330
BIC: BYLADEM1SRG

Option 2:
Alternatively, you can transfer the amount you want to donate onto my PayPal account. As in option 1, please include your name and comment as you want to have them displayed on the Helpedia site.
The data of my PayPal account which you need:
email address: martin@karl-martin.de

Both options mean that you can’t make the entries on the donation site itself – however, obviously you can fully rely on the fact that I’ll pass on your donation without any deduction and in a timely manner to Helpedia and consequently to Oxfam. By that, your donation is going to be directly displayed online and adding to the total amount donated so far. Just have a look at the site from time to time and check out how far we’re still off the target!

As the start of the tour isn’t that far away anymore, please don’t hesitate too much – and please pass on the link to your friends, relatives, colleagues etc. too!

Of course, all donations go straight to Oxfam Germany, without any deductions of Helpedia.

Let me say thank you very much for your support already now! THANK YOU!!

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