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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 8.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><br><span style="color: #333399;">The thighs are saying 'no more', the calf muscles are pleading 'gimme a break' and the feet are making a rare request for a massage. This is because I've decided to take on the 26.2 miles that the London Marathon has to offer to help raise funds to support Interact Worldwide projects. And to that end I have strapped on my trainers and started pounding those London streets, the Devonshire hills, the Thames towpaths, the parks and stretching out the aches and stiffness in the gym.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 8.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: &amp; FONT-SIZE;"><span style="font-family: &amp; FONT-SIZE;"> </span></span>A friend of mine works for this fantastic charity - InteractWorldwide. She has travelled great distances to work with</span><br><span style="color: #333399;">vulnerable people on the margins of society to ensure that all people get the sexual and reproductive health care and support they need. Georgia along with Interact Worldwide looks to 'empower and educate communities, train young leaders, ensure very pregnancy is wanted and every birth is safe, prevent the transmission of HIV and ensure quality health services are available', in Africa, Asia and Latin America.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 8.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #333399;">To give you a flavour of the projects Interact work on:</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 8.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><br><span style="color: #333399;">In Tanzania a project enabled 1,819 to benefit from their first ever</span><br><span style="color: #333399;">antenatal visits and 1,350 women to receive their first ever post</span><br><span style="color: #333399;">natal visits.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 8.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #333399;">In remote communities in the Sindh provision of Pakistan as a result of another project contraceptive use increase from 7% to 44%.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 8.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #333399;">The work has begun, but there is still loads to do... (To find out more please take a look at the website <a href="http://www.interactworldwide.org/">http://www.interactworldwide.org</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 8.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><br><span style="color: #333399;">So here's the tricky bit - any donation of any size would be hugely</span><br><span style="color: #333399;">appreciated and will certainly give me some much needed 'spurring on' on the actual day, Sunday 22nd April.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 8.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><br><span style="color: #333399;">Thank you so much and if you have received too many marathon donation requests to date and this would be one donation too far then no worries at all and thank you for having a read through.</span></p>
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