Lufthansa pilots Sebastian Bartel and Lars Heurich to compete with world’s best triathletes in Hawaii to collect donations for HelpAlliance’s water project in Gambia

Cologne, Germany, 10-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Every year in autumn the world’s best triathletes compete in Hawaii. Among them this time will be two Lufthansa pilots: A320 Captain Sebastian Bartel and First Officer Lars Heurich. The former will start in the Ironman on 12th October, the latter in the Ultraman on 29th November. Both are driven by the will to compete, both also by the desire to do some good.

Independently of each other they had the idea of swimming, cycling and running for the benefit of an aid project organized by the Lufthansa employees’ organization HelpAlliance. For each of the around 741 kilometres which will be covered in the events, 50 Euros can be donated at betterplace.org, the online fund-raising partner of the HelpAlliance. 

In this way, the extreme athletes want to collect donations totalling 37,000 Euros for the purchase of a solar-powered water pump system for the Gambian village of Jumansar with its around 1,200 residents. The new system will not only provide the villagers with clean drinking water, it will allow the families to plant, harvest and sell their agricultural products around the year – as a result of which, a regular income would be guaranteed. 

The HelpAlliance is a charitable aid organization which employees from all parts of the Lufthansa Group founded in 1999. Currently, the organi-zation supports around forty aid initiatives all over the world. The aim is to help people to help themselves and make it possible for those affected to improve their living conditions through their own efforts. The Lufthansa Group provides HelpAlliance with financial, logistic and communications support. You may find pictures here. 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Media Relations Lufthansa Group

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Lufthansa pilots Sebastian Bartel and Lars Heurich to compete with world's best triathletes in Hawaii to collect donations for HelpAlliance's water project in Gambia

Lufthansa pilots Sebastian Bartel and Lars Heurich to compete with world’s best triathletes in Hawaii to collect donations for HelpAlliance’s water project in Gambia

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