Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.
As part of my efforts to get more fit (and less fat), I'm running the Asics British 10k this year.
Yes, me. Running. Ten whole kilometres.
I'm doing this partly to raise money for Sightsavers, which works to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people in the developing world.
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.
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.
The money you give really will make a difference. Just £5 could prevent blindness and stop the pain for someone with trichiasis, or protect 16 families from river blindness for a year; £17 could restore the sight of an adult with cataract; £20 could provide 2 braille books for a child; £45 could help to screen 100 children; £75 could restore sight for a child with cataract.
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.
So please dig deep and donate now.
