<p>This spring I'm running the Endurance Life Trail Half Marathon along the Sussex coast with Tom Siese and Brighton Marathon with Ed Palmer to fundraise for Doctors for Nepal.</p> <p>After last year's Terminator all-terrain 10 miler race raised over &pound;300 for Doctors for Nepal, I'm upping the stakes and taking on an off-road Half Marathon in March and Brighton Marathon in April.</p> <p>Doctors for Nepal is a small UK-based charity that supports Nepali students from&nbsp;rural areas&nbsp;through medical school. They pledge to practice in&nbsp;their&nbsp;local area&nbsp;for 5 years, where medical facilities are scarce and under-staffed.</p> <p>The charity is growing rapidly from funds raised over the past 18 months, with 3 students in medical school in Kathmandu and Kohalpur.&nbsp; The charity is also running public health and healthcare worker training projects in these communities.&nbsp;</p> <p>Doctors&nbsp;for Nepal's&nbsp;first student, Lalit, will soon graduate and begin work in Kalikot, Western Nepal, at the hospital I spent 5 weeks at last summer. Witnessing the challenges the rural healthcare workers face in Nepal was an eye-opener - please support me in fundraising to get more local doctors on the ground in these struggling communities.</p> <p>Many thanks!</p>