That Gorilla Brand – Adventures for a Cause – Bwindi Community Water Projects
Fundraising campaign by
Leonidas Gripari
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€4,380.00Donated So Far
Campaign Story
TGB Adventures for A Cause - Bwindi Community Water Projects
To unlock our true strength and reach our fullest capabilities, we constantly push ourselves; every challenge we embark on contains the seeds for growth and opportunity. Even our smallest efforts have the power for great change and everyone holds more potential than we realise - we can all make a difference with our actions.
Our founder, Leo, started with his own small, personal challenge - he started running, even though he initially didn’t particularly like running. And on this seemingly small-scale human act, he had a transformative lightbulb moment - having witnessed the good that could be done at a grassroots level with The Gorilla Organization & their community led conservation projects, Leo decided that he was going to run a marathon to raise money to start a clean water project for the communities living around the mountain gorilla’s habitat. And in that instant, the seed was planted for That Gorilla Brand’s Adventures For A Cause.
Leo’s one marathon burgeoned into six fundraising adventures. To date, he has covered over 3500 km, and all the funds he has raised from these challenges have gone into initiating, building and growing the Bwindi Community Water Project with The Gorilla Organization.
From May 2021 until January 2023 , Leo embarked on six intense physical challenges around the globe, to fundraise for much-needed donations in order to provide sustainable water solutions for the communities that surround the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest- home to the endangered mountain gorillas in Uganda.
Currently, only one quarter of the communities have easy access to clean water. We have been working alongside Just A Drop (Specialists in water solutions on the African continent) and The Gorilla Organization (whom we already support) along with local authorities to implement much-needed sustainable water solutions, whether it be the construction of hand-dug or drilled wells, pipelines, sand dams, rain water harvesting systems, and latrines or a hygienic sanitisation programme.
We are determined to make a positive impact on the world, in an area we already feel so passionately about, through our premium conservation lifestyle brand That Gorilla Brand and our continued support of The Gorilla Organization.
As part of our commitment, we are pledging to match all donations up to a total of €75,000 and are guaranteeing that every single euro donated will have been spent directly on the water projects themselves.
Leo embarked on these six challenges:
#1 - Mount Olympus climb (Highest peak in Greece) - COMPLETED
#2 - Solo Marathon in Iceland - COMPLETED
#3 - Rim to Rim to Rim of the Grand Canyon hike (90kms from one side of the canyon to the other and back) - COMPLETED
#4 - Mardi Himal Trek & Run, Nepal - COMPLETED
#5 - Impact Marathon in Jordans Wadi Rum - CO
#6 - Ultra 50km marathon, Uganda - COMPLETED
We are also making a feature length film, Maji, to document these challenges, paired with the story of the global water crisis. From droughts to flooding, nations across the world are experiencing problems in different ways. MAJI (meaning water in Swahili) is a feature documentary taking a closer look at these issues from the perspective of five countries; Iceland, the USA, Jordan, Nepal and Uganda.
We hope that you can support us as we continue on our mission.
Organizer
- Leonidas Gripari
Donors
- Andrew and Sally Vincent
- Donated on Feb 13, 2022
Keep up the fantastic work you are doing Leo. We are so proud of you.
- Tim Boksa
- Donated on Dec 06, 2021
Awesome Accomplishments & work for a Great Cause, All the Best !
2 Challenges in and 3 to go
Update posted by Leonidas Gripari at 12:02 pmTwo incredible challenges are now complete with the latest being my first ever marathon, a solo marathon in Iceland. Donations are incredible and all in all we have circa €165,000 for the water projects in Uganda, which we hope to start in the first community imminently.Thanks for all the support
Direct Donation updates
Update posted by Leonidas Gripari at 03:59 pmThrough some incredible donations directly, we have now reached €59,660With our commitment to match donations up to a total of €75,000Our Grand total now stands at€119,320
Donors & Comments
- James MacGregor
- Donated on Feb 24, 2022
Keep on going! Amazing project! Good luck!
- Andrew and Sally Vincent
- Donated on Feb 13, 2022
Keep up the fantastic work you are doing Leo. We are so proud of you.
- Tim Boksa
- Donated on Dec 06, 2021
Awesome Accomplishments & work for a Great Cause, All the Best !
- Anonymous
- Donated on Nov 25, 2021
- Anonymous
- Donated on Oct 31, 2021
- Anonymous
- Donated on Oct 26, 2021
- Anonymous
- Donated on Oct 06, 2021
All the best!!!!!
- Chryssi Benitz
- Donated on Oct 06, 2021
Wishing you all the best.
- Christian Kampfer
- Donated on Oct 04, 2021
Hola Friendola, Goodluck for Iceland! Can't wait to see you smash it! All the best Christian and Liz x
- David Jones
- Donated on Aug 05, 2021
Sorry i'm late Get going boy!!
Keep on going! Amazing project! Good luck!