TWO Durham University students plan to escape from Durham Prison on a jailbreak-style mission to get to New Zealand in 36 hours with no money – in aid of Young Enterprise North East (YENE).
Andy Stephenson and Ali Hunsley will fake an escape from Durham Prison on 7am on Thursday 10 June with the aim of travelling to New Zealand in just a day-and-a-half with no cash for transport.
The two best friends, took up the challenge in order to raise money for not-for-profit organisation YENE, which help delivers enterprise education lessons to schools and colleges throughout the region.
Andy, who also runs his own business Raise a Tree - an online education game for children - hopes to be a future business mentor for YENE and said he is undertaking the challenge to inspire other young students.
He said: “The point is to show that ‘anything in life is possible’. If we complete the mission, it will give me incredible entrepreneurial and resource skills that I can take into the classroom and use to deliver inspiration to students.
“How far we actually get will depend on the support of the local media, any charitable donations and, of course, good old fashioned gift of the gab. We will utilise all sorts of transport including aeroplanes, cars, trains and taxis and will be collecting money for YENE on our way.
“Naturally we thought it best to undergo this challenge in fancy dress so if you see Batman and Robin on the morning of the June 10 please help them to get to New Zealand.”
Previous winners of Jailbreak have got as far as New York within 36 hours.
People can follow Andy and Ali’s journey via Twitter.com/NZjailbreak and sponsorship can be donated at http://www.justgiving.com/Andy-Stephenson1
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