Challenge Us – sporting events for all

Challenge Us has many years’ experience in the organisation of sporting events, both general and tailor made for companies. Its initiatives Beyond Limits (expeditions), Biz on the Bike (including the cycling events such as ICT on the Bike or NetApp on the Bike), and many other sporting events have brought together numerous amateur cyclists, mountaineers and lovers of the great outdoors over the past four years.

No fewer than 36 companies and institutions have already used the Challenge Us experience to organise national or international sporting events. Ninety-one company teams have already enrolled as participants in a sporting event.

Challenge Us has already supported six charitable causes:

In 2009 Beyond Limits collected some EUR 20,000 for the Verkaart Foundation. Twelve orphans in Kenya will receive education under the supervision of the Verkaart development team for a period of four years. 
www.verkaartdevelopementteam.nl

In  2008 the ICTExpedition Netherlands 2008 raised almost EUR 14,000 for:

  • Right to Play, an international NGO that uses sport and play programmes to improve health, develop life skills, and foster peace for children.  
    www.righttoplay.nl
  • Close the Gap, for the building of a classroom with 15 to 20 computers and other requisites in Lyamungu Moshi (Mwowe Primary School), in Tanzania.
    www.close-the-gap.org

In 2008 Challenge US donated some 15 portable computers (ICT Expedition Belgium 2008) to Danielle’s Children Fund for shelters in Ecuador and Nepal.
www.daniellechildrensfund.org

In 2007 the ICTExpedition 2007 contributed EUR 2,400 to the production, delivery and installation of 100 Heavy Gassifier Stoves in the mountain village of Sundarijal in Nepal through the Foundation for Sustainable Technologies (FoST).
www.fost-nepal.org

In 2006 the ICTExpedition 2006 donated two pallets of IT material to Close the Gap for different projects in Tanzania.
www.close-the-gap.org

"Reaching the top is the ultimate kick. But the most fascinating is the fact you can succeed with each team member; you learn to know yourself and the other team members. A lesson to be used also in professional life."

Hilde Havermans, Director of Project Management van Siemens Enterprise