Releasing Children from Poverty

February 3, 2013
by Rodney Olsen
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25000 Spins is a non-profit business dedicated to making a difference to children in need. Their vision is to not only make the lives of children better but to empower and challenge people to get involved in the cause through physical challenges.

Together with a few friends, I’m about to head to Victoria to take on the Great Ocean Road Challenge. The ride is raising money for ADRA, Compassion and Botswana Orphan Project.

There’ll be several dozen people taking part overall but within my group of friends from Western Australia, there’s Mark Rose, Derek Roper and Stewart Horne.

Our chosen charity is Compassion and we’re extremely grateful for everyone who has donated so far and helped us release children from poverty but we still have a long way to go to raise much needed funds for Compassion.

We’ll be riding 290 kilometres and battling some serious hills over three days and we need your support. By sponsoring our efforts on the challenge you’ll be releasing children from poverty. You’ll be giving children a real chance at life.

If you want to sponsor any of us just choose which rider you’re sponsoring and click on the link below.

Click here to support Mark Rose.

Click here to support Derek Roper.

Click here to support Stewart Horne..

Click here to support Rodney Olsen.

It’ll be the second time I’ve taken on this challenge to raise money for Compassion and to release children from poverty.

Having seen first hand, both in Haiti and Dominican Republic, how effective Compassion’s work is, I am determined to do what I can to help.

Maybe you can afford to sponsor us for a dollar a kilometre, maybe 50 cents a kilometre, or perhaps you’d just like to donate $10, $20, $50 or any other amount.

Please help us save some lives. Please make your donation, large or small, and then share this post in as many ways as you can so that more people will get on board and more lives will be saved.



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Great Ocean Road Challenge 2013

January 27, 2013
by Rodney Olsen
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Two weeks from today I’ll be cycling out of Geelong on the Great Ocean Road Challenge.

It’ll be the second time I’ve taken on this challenge to raise money for Compassion and to release children from poverty.

Having seen first hand, both in Haiti and Dominican Republic, how effective Compassion’s work is, I am determined to do what I can to help. That’s why from the 10th to the 12th of February I’ll once again be taking part in the 25000 Spins Great Ocean Road Challenge.

I’ll be riding 290 kilometres and battling some serious hills over three days and I need your support. By sponsoring my efforts on the challenge you’ll be releasing children from poverty. You’ll be giving children a real chance at life. Please visit my fundraising page and make a contribution. Maybe you can afford to sponsor me for a dollar a kilometre, maybe 50 cents a kilometre, or perhaps you’d just like to donate $10, $20, $50 or any other amount. My overall target is $2500 so I have a long way to go.

Please help me save some lives. Please make your donation, large or small, and then share this post in as many ways as you can so that more people will get on board and more lives will be saved. And whether you feel like it or not, I reckon that would make you a hero.



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Scenes from the Great Ocean Road

February 18, 2012
by Rodney Olsen
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A week ago I was getting ready for the amazing experience of cycling the 25000Spins Great Ocean Road Challenge. The ride raised money for ADRA, Compassion and Botswana Orphan Project. My chosen charity was Compassion and I’m extremely grateful for everyone who donated and helped me release children from poverty.

It’s not too late to contribute. You can still donate online right now by going to my online fundraising page.

Here is a handful of photos from the ride including my bike in pieces after traveling across the country in a box. After that you’ll see some of the amazing scenery along the Great Ocean Road. Unfortunately they don’t even begin to capture the beauty of what we saw and experienced as we rode from Geelong to Warrnambool. You can click on each of the photos and have a closer look.

I’ll write more about the ride soon.



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Taking the Challenge

December 20, 2011
by Rodney Olsen
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In my previous post I told you about joining the 25000 Spins Great Ocean Road Challenge to raise funds for Compassion.

I’ll be riding around 290 kilometres over three days to release children from poverty. I’ve seen Compassion’s work first hand in Haiti and Dominican Republic so I know it makes a real difference.

One of the other riders on the challenge is Andrew Streat, Marketing Director for Compassion Australia. Andrew’s based in New South Wales, on the other side of Australia, so I won’t get to ride with him until the event in February but I’m looking forward to meetin him and the others who are riding for a great cause.

Prior to joining Compassion, Andrew worked in a number of different fields and areas, including spending a decade in the Air Force travelling through Asia and Australia, picking up a managerial position in a Health and Fitness Centre, working with mentally disabled adults as a Diversional Therapist for Hunter Mission, and giving 15 years to various marketing and managerial roles with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.

Joining Compassion in 2010, Andrew now heads up the marketing team by taking the common vision of seeing children released from poverty in Jesus’ name, and sharing this vision with supporters and child advocates throughout Australia. Andrew’s favourite quote, “stand for something or fall for anything” infiltrates all his actions as Marketing Director, as he seeks to show the Australian people why Compassion stands for children living in poverty, and how they can help advocate against this injustice.

Andrew is also a man of many hidden talents: he enjoys painting artworks, learning the violin, drinking good coffee and spending quality time surfing with his wife, Kim.

Today on my Morning Café radio program I spoke to Andrew about the challenge and how the money raised would be used to release children from poverty. You can click the play button on the audio player below to listen to our conversation.

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