Find 52 Thousand

THE ROAD TO READING NATIONAL RELAY
March 2020

Thank you for making a difference in the lives of children today and tomorrow…Go, go, go! So grateful for go-getters like you!.…Bonne chance dans la chaleur et l’humidité de Ste-Lucie! J’espère que les enfants de Ste-Lucie deviendront des lecteurs et lectrices passionné(e)s!

ENCOURAGING WORDS
What donors are saying this year

Thanks to everyone in Canada – and St. Lucia – for your support. We’ve tracked fundraising totals from all 2017 and 2018 campaigns on this page. To see 2020’s fundraising progress, scroll down to the donation “wheel” below. A special thanks to all the students, schools, teachers, parents, runners and coaches and the generous donors who push their chosen campaigns ever upward!

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In Words & Pictures

Fundraising Results 2019-2020

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Fundraising Results 2018

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Fundraising Results 2017

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2020

Find 52 Thousand

$14,734

raised of $52,000 goal

Campaign concluded on Tue, March 31 2020

28

% raised

Fundraising is an Uphill Battle

In January 2015, I ran 52 miles in Grenada. Let me dismiss athletic motives; it so happens 52 miles gets you all the way around the island. I did it for money – $40,000 – all of which went to OneWorld Schoolhouse. CTV National news ran the story on May 25, 2015 and so began Find 52.

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber

Finding the way for Fundraising

Olympian Jake Holden and Richard Clewes survey the route for Find 52 in January 2016. The duo were joined by St. Lucian Olympic athletes and members of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force.

A road is a song, a poem, a movie, an adventure. It's hope and optimism, and inquisitiveness.
A. A. GILL

The Angry Isle

Find 52 started in Grenada

52 miles gets you right around this small, beautiful island. Companions on the second day included: Philip Clift from Petite Anse Hotel, an enthusiastic young boy and one very fit dog named "Dodgy".

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.
ST. AUGUSTINE

International Literacy Day 2016

Soufrière Primary ran a relay on September 8, 2016 to celebrate reading. The event was filmed as part of the "run-up" to our first Find 52 Thousand campaign in 2017. Over 1,000 students from grade 3-12 ran 1 mile segments right around St. Lucia.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

(1879-1955)