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                                                         "Giving Today's Street Children a Better Tomorrow"

'Run for their Lives' at Twickenham Stadium on June 5th is being run in conjunction with the Rugby Football Union's National Family Week Sports Day. Individuals, teams, parents and children can all take part with there being a reduced distance for minis or those with limited mobility. It is 5k for adults and 2.5 for children and starts at 1pm. The first finishers will get to run a momentous lap on a track on the hallowed turf with those who come in later finishing in the Stadium bowl, no doubt to the applause of their supporters.

The charity being supported is Future Hope in Kolkata, India. Future Hope was founded in 1988 with just a handful of children and now provides schooling, medical care, food and a safe, loving enviroment to over 160 boys and girls. Most of these children have come from the streets and stations. Where possible Future Hope keeps youngsters with families with their parents and they are given an education at Future Hope school and the chance of a better future. There are now aprrox 110 day scholars from the surrounding slums.

Some of the children find adapting to a structured lifestyle difficult and so the founder, Tim Grandage, a former Rugby School boy and rugby enthusiast, found rugby was a fantastic way to bind the children to one another and to the school community. They are now sponsored by Harlequins Rubgy Club and play in their colours, this is a kit and connection of which all the boys and girls are immensely proud. Such is the success of the Future Hope rugby programme that most of the Bengal 7s team is now made up of Future Hope boys. This is despite the fact that they often struggle for adequate footwear and train on an open public space amongst vendors and horses.

I visited Future Hope in the summer of 2008 and had the absolute joy of coaching the U13 boys team and introducing the girls to rugby. The children at Future Hope have left an impression on me that will last a lifetime, it really is not a cliche that those who have so little give so much.

Go to www.futurehope.net for more information on this remarkable school and home.

This really is for everyone, regardless of your physical fitness, this is an event that can literally be life changing. So come on lets run for their lives!

To register or express an interest please contact me at rachelmowbray03@hotmail.com or register on the day from 11.30 am

There is no mimum sponsorship required, run for a fiver if you come you are more than welcome. If you can not make it please sponsor our runners by donating to the page.