280 Kilometers
Day 1: 177km
Day 2: 103km
3194m Ascent
Day 1: 1866m
Day 2: 1328m
14HRS 38MINS
Day 1: 8H 24M
Day 2: 6H 14M
18.73 km/h
Day 1: 20.95 km/h
Day 2: 16.52 km/h
JackalBerry Challenge 2019
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JackalBerry 2018 Targets
Thank you so much to every one of you for your contribution. Every cent donated makes a difference to the learners, teachers, parents and community, and through education, positive change becomes reality.
Extreme Target: R50 000
Challenge Target: R350 000
Funds Raised
Proceeds raised during the JackalBerry Challenge each year are donated entirely to the Ubuhle Christian School
JackalBerry 2017
Highlights from JackalBerry 2017
JackalBerry 2016
Highlights from JackalBerry 2016
Sponsors
The JackalBerry Challenge has been sponsored since inception in 2011 by three main sponsors.
BMi Research
BMi Research is a long standing full service research house specialising in qualitative and quantitative research solutions. With multi-sector experience, the BMi team understands industrial and manufacturing research, wholesale to retail intelligence and shopper insights.
Six Square Networks
Six Square Networks is a leading provider of managed services, offering end-to-end infrastructure, security and internet solutions to the medium-size enterprise market, enabling clients to gain operational control, visibility and efficiency, to consolidate and manage costs, whilst aligning with governance, risk and compliance objectives.
4PL Group
The 4PL.GROUP is an intergrated supply chain company specialising in end-to-end services. We are a dynamic supply chain business established to offer the Southern African and International market a comprehensive supply chain solution. 4PL.GROUP offers full bulk supply chain turnkey solutions.
Great Things
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
"Marcus Tullius Cicero"
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The JackalBerry Challenge Story
Near the Mpumalanga town of Bronkhorstspruit, Ubuhle Christian School is situated on the farm of Hugo and Melanie Prinsloo. Melanie is the passionate founder and driver of the school and has brought so much hope to this community since 2008. The community consists of rural farm workers and their families whose daily plight is fighting poverty. Somehow the dream to educate their children and thus enable these children to have a chance at breaking the cycle of poverty is what attracts this community to Melanie and her passion to educate their children. The school complex began humbly and has grown in stature and influence over time through relentless vision and passion.
Enter three businessmen who shared three common passions; supporting this underprivileged school, love for mountain biking and enjoying a good challenge. So, while the cause and the starting point were born, all that was needed was the actual cycle course and the cycle destination. Enter another similar minded businessman who owns the farm JackalBerry in Machadodorp in Mpumalanga. This beef farm nestles on the escarpment and provides the perfect destination for the annual JackalBerry Challenge riders to end their two-day cycle journey.
Vision and Mission
Our vision is to provide quality Christian education, especially for orphans and vulnerable childred living in disadvantaged farmwork families and township areas surrounding Bronkhorstspruit.
Our mission is to raise a new generation of children that:
The primary sponsors who have created and funded this event are 4 PL Group, BMi Research and Six Square Networks. Though they have contributed financially since inception, the expertise and support from their respective staff is really what gave life to the JackalBerry Challenge and supporting Ubuhle Christian School is certainly part of the DNA of each of these companies throughout the year. Naturally many people and many other sponsors have also made tremendous contributions to the cause over the years.
Cyclists Comments
Some insight, contemplation, reflection and introspection from the JackalBerry Challenge cyclists...
An Institution
The Jackalberry Challenge or JB as we know it has become an institution for us as a business. The challenge marries the desire to uplift a community and the love for adventure so many of us at 4PL share. We are delighted to see the change that JB is making in the community and we are proud to be associated with the challenge.
Brendan Pearson
Uplifting Community
The Jackalberry Challenge journey has grown with BMi as we have sought to assist in uplifting this rural community in Bronkhorspruit. BMi staff remain committed to supporting the school, the scholar and parents through building bricks for homes, being part of supplying transport, supplying clothing and computers or even digging vegetable gardens. Jackalberry Challenge is where the BMi team support Ubuhle tangibly through the event organization and planning which is our way of giving back to others and making a difference to this community those less fortunate.
Gareth Pearson
Just incredible
This event is certainly a highlight each year, for myself and for the entire team at Six Square. The opportunity to effectively make a significant difference to the Ubuhle community, while enjoying some of the best terrain this beautiful country has to offer, is most certainly something we are extremely grateful for.
Lloyd Anderson
HOT SPOTS
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