33 Hotels in Europe, Africa and the Middle East Raised over $200k For Charity

Manama, Bahrain, 4th July 2006 - Teams from 33 Starwood Hotels across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, raised a magnificent $236,776 for UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, by cycling 360km from Amsterdam to Brussels over the weekend of the 2nd to 4th June.

The money raised by the Starwood EAME Bicycle Challenge will support a UNICEF project which helps youth clubs in Ethiopia to set up their own businesses, providing them with regular work and an income out of which they can give financial assistance to local orphaned and vulnerable children. In addition, by selling their goods and services to local people the youth clubs will make everyone in the community aware of the plight of the children they are trying to help, making it easier to bring about an increase in the care provided to children in the community itself.