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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dear friends and family/ anyone with spare change/petty cash. Lend me your ears (give me your money). I have decided to run the London Marathon, and to do so must raise at least £1,500. If I don't raise this amount EveryChild will shatter my knee caps.</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I am sure you are all aware, EveryChild is an international children’s charity, working to stop children growing up vulnerable and alone (like me). Estimates suggest that 24 million children are growing up today without parental care, their survival often threatened by greater risk of malnutrition, violence and exploitation; their future lost by missing out on school and their childhood.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">Working with local partners EveryChild keeps children safe when they are alone and at risk, and protect children in danger of ending up on their own by keeping families together, getting children back to a safe and caring family wherever they </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">can.</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">So please dig deep and help support this worthy vision of a world where every child enjoys the right to a childhood in a safe and caring family, free from poverty, violence and exploitation.</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">p.s. I now have 100 followers on twitter, (including Nick Clegg) and I am prepared to name and shame people who do not cough up. No doubt this will be a humiliating experience for those facing my wrath.</span></span></strong></p>
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