Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

I will be running New York Marathon in November and I'm approaching it with mixed feelings but predominantly terror as I am getting on a bit and this is my first (and I suspect last) Marathon!

I'm running in aid of a charity with which I am closely involved and which is particularly close to my heart since my mother died in Africa some years ago. Project Harar helps those children who cannot help themselves through securing life-changing surgery for children with a severe facial disfigurement living in the poorest areas of Ethiopia. Children with these disfigurements not only have difficulty in eating and speaking but are also more often than not cast out of society and forced to live on the street, with many of them dying there.

Last year the charity funded and treated 475 patients, and has ambitious growth targets going forward. Through close collaboration with local hospitals and other charities the capacity to carry out significantly more operations exists, with the bottleneck being, as always at the funding side of things.

The average cost of each operation is only £300 so every penny you give counts!

Thank you so much for your help and support. 100% of all public donations go directly to funding the work in Ethiopia.