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Thank you for visiting my fundraising webpage.
On Sunday 19th July, I will be running 10 kilometres at the Partnership Walk & Run 2009 to be held at Gloucester Green, Regent’s Park, London.
By running this distance I will be raising sponsorship monies for the Aga Khan Foundation and will be taking steps to build a brighter future for disadvantaged communities in developing countries.
Partnership Walk & Run 2006 raised in excess of £400,000, and had over 1,000 participants.
AKF is a non-denominational, international development agency established in 1967 by His Highness the Aga Khan. Its mission is to develop and promote creative solutions to problems that impede social development, primarily in South and Central Asia and East Africa.
In every undertaking, the AKF’s overriding goal is to assist in the struggle against hunger, disease, illiteracy, ignorance and social exclusion. Central to all these efforts have been inclusive, community-based development approaches, in which local organisations identify, prioritise and implement projects with the Foundation’s assistance. Within this ethos, AKF focuses on four selected issues: health, education, rural development and the strengthening of civil society.
Funds raised from this year’s event will go directly to support the following three AKF projects:
· Early Childhood Development programme - “Jailoo” Kindergartens in theKyrgyz Republic
· Environmental Health Improvement Programme in Gujarat
· Rice Farming Yield Improvement Programme in Madagascar
For further information on these three programmes please visit www.partnershipsinaction.org.uk/walkrunmyimpactintro.html
The overheads of AKF are funded by His Highness the Aga Khan and from endowment income. All monies raised therefore go directly towards funding AKF’s programmes.
These projects have made a real difference to people’s lives, so please give what you can. Any donation – large or small – will help AKF to continue its fantastic work.
Why not join in? To register you simply need to visit www.partnershipsinaction.org.uk for what promises to be a great event.
Many thanks for your support.