<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Still running 2012...</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Run for the Slum</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In February 2010 I went to Jheelpur Slum in Dhaka. Click <a href="http://www.arban.org.uk/?page_id=7">here</a> to read about my visit. What I saw there has changed my whole perspective on life. Unable to walk away and pretend I&rsquo;d not seen what I did, I shared my experiences with friends who have also been inspired to help. Together, we&rsquo;ve set up the charity, ARBAN UK, supporting an NGO in Bangladesh which works to change the lives of people in the slums.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It&rsquo;s about parents in the UK doing what they can to help parents in Bangladesh. We&rsquo;re aiming to raise &pound;30,000 to build and run a clinic in the slum. At the moment families don&rsquo;t visit the doctor as they can&rsquo;t afford to &ndash; there&rsquo;s no NHS in Bangladesh. The money we raise will pay for a full time doctor to work in the slum so that parents don&rsquo;t have to watch helpless, while their children suffer or die. Building has started and a doctor been employed. To see photos and find out more about what we are doing, please visit <a href="http://www.arban.org.uk/">www.arban.org.uk</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">One of our fund raising initiatives is running and last year I ran the Bristol 10K.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A few years ago I would l have laughed at the idea of me running for 10 kilometres, but my life has changed in many ways since I became a mum. After the birth of my third child I caught sight of myself in a shop window and decided I didn&rsquo;t want to stay like that for the rest of my life. I joined a gym, committed to going twice a week and have completely changed my attitude to exercise. I&rsquo;ve built myself up from being incapable of running and not enjoying it to contemplating a 10K race and being hooked! This distance may not be much for many of you runners, but for me it will be a huge achievement.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So, please support me as I continue to Run for the Slum. I'm running the Bristol 10K again in May 2012 and we have also started a school fun run. I&rsquo;m running to achieve a personal goal and I&rsquo;m running for the mums I met in Jheelpur Slum, to help make their lives a little easier.</p>