<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p>As part of my efforts to get more fit (and less fat), I'm running the Asics British 10k this year.</p> <p>Yes, me. Running. Ten whole kilometres.</p> <p>I'm doing this partly to raise money for Sightsavers, which works&nbsp; to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people in the developing world.</p> <p>Sightsavers works to combat blindness, restoring sight through specialist treatment and eyecare. Restoring sight means that people can work and earn the money to keep themselves and their families.</p> <p>Sightsavers also supports people who are irreversiblly blind by providing education, counselling and training. They help the people who need it most- those living in poverty in some of the world's poorest countries.</p> <p>The money you give really will make a difference. Just &pound;5 could prevent blindness and stop the pain for someone with trichiasis, or protect 16 families from river blindness for a year; &pound;17 could restore the sight of an adult with cataract; &pound;20 could provide 2 braille books for a child; &pound;45 could help to screen 100 children; &pound;75 could restore sight for a child with cataract.</p> <p>It's a cause close to my own heart; I had congential cataract as a child, and lost the sight in my right eye to it. It's common across the developing world, where blinding conditions increase childhood mortality - 50% of children who go blind die within two years. Yet these conditions are easily prevented and cured.</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p>