First week

After having started this project a week ago let me tell you about some interesting first week stats:

- About US$ 2,000 raised (PEN 6,200), 24 persons donated in 3 different cities of the world (Lima, Peru; Paris, France and Santiago, Chile) with an average of approximately US$ 85 per person. Thanks to each and every one of them!

- 544 visits to the blogs (both, the English and Spanish accumulate visitor count), almost 78 visitors per day from 10 different countries (according to the origin graph I include below). Let’s hope they keep on reading and all this visitors become donators in the future:
- 7 registered blog followers (all in the Spanish version), some of them already made their donation. You can become a follower by clicking on Follow this blog on the right side of the page.

- 2 posts published during the week: “Introduction” that many of you received by e-mail and “Ready, set, go…” with a little bit more detail of the project. I decided to let this two posts alone for the first week but now it’s time to update the page with new information. In future posts I’ll talk more about the community, the children and the development projects they have.

- 1 comment received from Bogota, Colombia, Thanks Rocio! For everyone else out there, you can leave your comments at the end of each new post by clicking on 0 comments.

- We don’t have any subscribers yet but is something I just added a couple of days ago so I hope it turns out different on the next days. As a subscriber, you’ll receive an e-mail each time the blog it’s updated so you can easily read the new posts. Subscribe by clicking on Subscribe and receive an e-mail when this blog updates!

- We launched a Facebook event on Feb 5th: Nuestra meta: su futuro inviting people to participate, Thanks Colomba and Jaime! Until yesterday, 857 invitations were sent, 30 will assist, 59 won’t, 18 maybe and 750 haven’t answered yet. The truth is that there is not such an event because I’m not thinking everyone saying yes will go to Ironman Brazil so, hopefully, even the ones that said they won’t assist (many very good friends among them) will support the project by donating and communicating it.

- We also created a Facebook group to take advantage of this social network and keep our project supporters informed.

- As for training, this week I completed a total of 4,500 meters of swimming (pool and open waters), 180 km of cycling, 42 km of running and two visits to the gym, all in 6 days and more than 13 hours of training.

As a final conclusion of this first week I would say that it has been a very hard week, lots of work (sending e-mails, updating the blog, following up on people and bank accounts, communicating the project, training, working, etc.) but has been extremely gratifying for me.

I have received many motivating words, many e-mails encouraging me to go on with this, congratulating me for the proposal and that can only confirm my commitment with the project and recharge my illusion that we can all together make an important change for this kids. I’m sure we will reach and exceed our goal!

Our goal: their future