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<div class="yiv842162811MsoNormal" style="right: auto;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: ArialMT;">I'm running the London marathon to support </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: ArialMT;">the work of Partners Relief and Development, who help some of the people most affected by the civil war in Burma. </span></span></div>
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<div class="yiv842162811MsoNormal" style="right: auto;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last year I traveled to the Thai-Burma border as part of a team to see the work Partners do, and met some of the Karen people including children who are growing up in a refugee camp, many times separated from their parents or orphaned. </span></span></div>
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<div class="yiv842162811MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: small;">We had great fun with the children in Mae La camp; playing dodgeball, acting-out stories and listening to them sing. I was touched by their capacity for fun, but also by the suffering they had already experienced in their lives. </span></span></div>
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<div class="yiv842162811MsoNormal" style="right: auto;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking part in the London marathon as a ‘Run for Relief’ is a great challenge, and an opportunity for me to help people many miles away who may literally have had to run for their lives as soldiers destroy their homes. </span></span></div>
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<div class="yiv842162811MsoNormal" style="right: auto;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: small;">With your help, hopefully I'll be able to raise money and awareness of the great work Partners do!</span></span></div>
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