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Crawl the Bays 2021 - Raising money for KidsCan

$11,820 donated

Given by 355 generous donors in 4 weeks

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I will be attempting an 8km bear crawl to gain some valuable attention for KidsCan NZ

Auckland

My name is Joe Hemi. I'm a 30 Year old fitness professional with 15 years experience. In the year 2021, I plan to complete a series of seemingly insurmountable fitness challenges. Having grown up in a somewhat financially challenging position, I find myself now in a position to give back. I feel that attempting an 8km Run in a bear crawl position will gain some valuable attention for a good cause such as KidsCan.

With enough awareness and funds raised from my feats of fitness this year, such as the Bear crawl, KidsCan will be able to provide opportunities to children whose families are struggling and will create the same opportunity to learn, live, and thrive as others.

Perhaps you share my opinion of an 8km Bear Crawl being somewhat unfathomable, but the thought of kids going to school without the resources or opportunities to learn is much worse, right? If you're like me and find yourself in a position to help someone less fortunate, please donate to this cause.

Joe Hemi's involvement (page creator)

I will Bear Crawl the 8km Round the Bays event, Feb 2021 in support of KidsCan and the beautiful work that they do to help our community. It all starts with the Kids.

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Thank you and goodnight 13 March 2021

I'm eternally grateful to all that helped me throughout the last month.

We managed to complete the 8km Bear Crawl in what I would argue is record worthy time. But more importantly, we raised close to $12,000 for the KidsCan guys to use in our communities, to level the playing field for underprivileged kids in NZ.

From minute one, back on the 12th Feb when I declared intent, until the completion of the crawl on the 6th March, I have had the most heart warming support. From lovely messages of support, chin wags in the gym, likes/comments/shares on the socials, donations to the Givealittle, it has all been so bloody good😭😭

Today is Sat the 13th March, and even now the fatigue has still not left my mind and body. I'm still sleeping alot, and aching even at rest. I don't mention this for sympathy, but more to those of you who I have not expressed my gratitude enough, a glimpse of how little energy I currently have, to perform anything other than getting to work and back in my days. I'll get to you all soon🙏🏼🙏🏼

Again much love. I'm the clown who crawled from the front, but this was a beautiful team effort. Here's to us💚💚

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