Follow UIW alumna Samantha Mangum '06 as she bike rides across the United States on a quest to raise $50,000 for The Living Waters Orphanage in Arusha, Tanzania. The trip begins on June 6 when she and three colleagues depart from Yorktown, Va. The nearly 4,000-mile, seven-week trip will end in San Francisco.

"I came across a picture of Barreki and I. Barreki (which means "Spirit of God" in Swahili) is a nine-year-old boy at the orphanage that I'm raising money for. He's wearing my reggae hat, his arms crossed and he's smiling at my camera. I can’t help but wonder if he knows how much he’s changed my life. I wonder if he knows I’m leaving my life on the East Coast to find it on the West Coast…and he is my drive for doing it. He makes me smile."