Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – Patrick Cook-Deegan, a young man who biked across Southeast Asia to raise money for a primary school in Laos, gives a shout out to the Clinton School and Dean Skip Rutherford on his updated Web site: www.cycleforschools.com. We thought we’d do the same on the Clinton School Blog, since Patrick was a speaker here in January 2007.
Cook-Deegan created Cycle for Schools in the summer of 2006 with the goal of bicycling the length of Laos (about 900 miles). By the end of that summer, the total distance he traveled tripled and he added two countries to his journey, raising more than $22,500, enough money for a school in Laos and two K-12 scholarships for girls in Cambodia. CLICK HERE to watch his Clinton School speech.