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Mary's (is hoping to) run the marathon (2012)!

Mary Carter is raising money for Emerge Poverty Free
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Virgin London Marathon 2011 · 17 April 2011 ·

emerge poverty free believes that every child should be free to follow their own path in life rather than a destiny fixed by where they are born. emerge poverty free empowers people to fight poverty themselves.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately due to injury I won't be able to run the 2011 London Marathon - gutted.</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am hoping to defer my place to 2012 however so providing I am fully recovered I'll try again then......</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">If so, I will continue to donate all sponsorship to the Hope Community Centre in Kenya. Many thanks to those who have sponsored me already, it is much appreciated (and I won't ask you again next year!).</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Hope Community Centre is&nbsp;near Naivasha in central Kenya. The centre houses over 200 children, including 22 orphaned babies. Many of the children have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS, their mothers have died in childbirth, or they have been abandoned because their families are too poor to care for them, and they have been rescued from the streets of Kenya&rsquo;s cities. At the centre the children have somewhere safe to live, food to eat, a chance to go to school and someone to care for them.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">To give you an idea of how your donation will help:</span></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">&pound;20</span></strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;"> will house and educate a child or baby at the Hope Community Centre for a month.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">&pound;50</span></strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;"> will help provide the additional food needed to feed 3 babies for one year.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">&pound;100</span></strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;"> will provide the consultancy and appropriate medicine for a baby for one year.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">Please give generously!</span></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">Find out more about WER (World Emergency Relief), who fund the community centre: </span><a href="http://www.wer-uk.org/"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.wer-uk.org</span></strong></a><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the Hope Community Centre:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://www.wer-uk.org/our-work/africa/kenya/care-for-orphans-street-children"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.wer-uk.org/our-work/africa/kenya/care-for-orphans-street-children</span></strong></a></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>

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