<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Friends of St. Michael&rsquo;s Uganda has been supporting </span>a primary girls&rsquo; school for 10 years.&nbsp; The school is set in a very rural and poor part of Eastern Uganda.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="min-height: 16px; margin: 0px; font: 14px Arial;"><span style="color: #0000ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font: 14px Arial;"><span style="color: #0000ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">We will be running the Bath Half Marathon to enable the charity to buy Malaria Testing Kits for the new fully equipped Sick Bay. About 7 girls each week come down with symptoms of malaria.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font: 14px Arial;"><span style="color: #0000ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Malaria Testing Kits (which cost <strong>70p</strong>) will be used by the nurse at the school to test if the children have malaria.&nbsp; By taking a small pin prick of blood the test can give an accurate reading. A well qualified Ugandan nurse has recently been recruited and a volunteer nurse from the Bristol Royal Infirmary has just arrived and will be spending two months at the school to establish good practice and training.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font: 14px Arial;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br>We hope the money raised from the Half Marathon, will enable the school to purchase at least two year&rsquo;s supply of kits &ndash; saving lives.<br><br>Money from my run will also go towards the development of the School Lunch Feeding Programme - The Porridge Pot Project, now in its 5</span><span style="font: 9px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> year.&nbsp; There are over 500 day girls at the school, who the charity feed every school day. The girls get a bowl of maize porridge&nbsp; -&nbsp; and exam results and concentration in class has improved. <br><br>In August&nbsp; 2011 a volunteer spent time at the school to evaluate the Feeding Programme and look at ways it can be improved. The money raised will enable the charity to introduce fruit and vegetables into the girls&rsquo; diet.</span></span></p> <p style="min-height: 16px; margin: 0px; font: 14px Arial;"><span style="color: #0000ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font: 14px Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">100% of money raised goes directly to the school. All administration costs including the Just Giving fees are funded by donors who specifically support the administration costs of the charity. The charity is run by volunteers.</span><br><br></span></p> <p>Remember: Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving - they'll never share them with anyone or send you unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity. They'll make sure Gift Aid (an additional 28%) is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer, too. That means more money goes to the charity, faster, with JustGiving.</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p>