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Dear Friends.
If I make it round the Glasgow half marathon in the dreach Glasgow weather I will be so, so, so happy and willing to forget my sore feet, joggers nipples, chaffed thighs and Scottish September tan. However, if I make it around AND make some money for this organisation then I'll be ecstatic.
It helps Ethiopian women who've suffered trauma during childbirth that would otherwise go untreated. It offers surgery and rehabilitation helping women to go on and live meaningful lives again. One story brought this home to me powerfully: a woman was discovered by the organisation's outreach team who had spent several years in an outhouse - living in her own excrement and urine because of the 'disabilities' her injuries had left her with. She was only minimally maintained by her family as she was no longer able to have children or play an economic role in the family and felt ashamed to enter back into her community as she was doubly incontinent with no hope of any future. The organisation were able to help her physically and support her journey back into society.
So that's why I chose it.
I know that times are tough and there's not much money to go round but even if it's only £1 your donation will help make a difference. And what's more help me keep plodding when the Glasgow skies well and truly open and a cold breeze hits my goosebumpy thighs off the Clyde!
Thanks.
Helen
If I make it round the Glasgow half marathon in the dreach Glasgow weather I will be so, so, so happy and willing to forget my sore feet, joggers nipples, chaffed thighs and Scottish September tan. However, if I make it around AND make some money for this organisation then I'll be ecstatic.
It helps Ethiopian women who've suffered trauma during childbirth that would otherwise go untreated. It offers surgery and rehabilitation helping women to go on and live meaningful lives again. One story brought this home to me powerfully: a woman was discovered by the organisation's outreach team who had spent several years in an outhouse - living in her own excrement and urine because of the 'disabilities' her injuries had left her with. She was only minimally maintained by her family as she was no longer able to have children or play an economic role in the family and felt ashamed to enter back into her community as she was doubly incontinent with no hope of any future. The organisation were able to help her physically and support her journey back into society.
So that's why I chose it.
I know that times are tough and there's not much money to go round but even if it's only £1 your donation will help make a difference. And what's more help me keep plodding when the Glasgow skies well and truly open and a cold breeze hits my goosebumpy thighs off the Clyde!
Thanks.
Helen