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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">After five half marathons, I am running my first (and probably only) marathon in Rome on 18 March. I am running for JENGA after my older daughter, Lorna decided to go to Uganda with them this summer for 8 weeks as a volunteer.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">JENGA Community Development Outreach is a Christian outreach based in East Africa that seeks to communicate the love of God through both words and actions. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">JENGA focusses on providing the essentials of life such as water, sanitation, health and education to the most needy communities and targets women, children and orphans. </span></span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JENGA also aims to witness to the truth about Jesus Christ in a culturally sensitive manner. </span></span></span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">I have been training for 15 weeks now, running in all weather (well apart from warm sunshine!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My longest run before the marathon itself is 20miles ... I guess the last 6 will be a new experience!</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">I feel like I’m being held together with regular physio and Compeed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If any of you do need a sports physio then I can definitely recommend Achilles Heel – not sure I would still be going without them!</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">I hope you will feel able to sponsor me. JENGA is a fantastic and really deserving cause.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Thank you so much for your support – it really means loads to me and to JENGA.</span></p>
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