Hi everyone,
As some of you may know, I will be competing in the 2010 Virgin London Marathon for the Children With Aids Charity (CWAC). This will be the second time I have represented CWAC, the first in 2005. As training is now well underway I am now turning my efforts to raising some well needed funds. For those of you that are unfamiliar with the charity here is a brief background as to how it was first incepted.
In 1991 a Specialist Paediatric HIV Service was established in St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London. In 1992 the team were seeing an increase in the number of children they were caring for and seeing the impact that HIV had on children and their families. Rebecca Handel, whose daughter Bonnie was being cared for at St Mary’s, met Jo Dodge, the coordinator of the service, to discuss the shortage in the existing provision of services for children infected and affected by HIV. Being white, middle-class and Jewish, Rebecca shattered all HIV-positive stereotypes, having become infected with HIV through a blood transfusion in her second pregnancy, before blood was screened for the virus.
Together with the paediatric team of St. Mary’s they decided to start a charity that could respond to the specific practical, emotional and educational requirements of children and their families infected and affected by HIV. On 12th October 1993 the Children With AIDS Charity was officially registered. Bonnie Handel, Rebecca’s daughter, died in St Mary’s Hospital the following December; Rebecca Handel died on 1 January 1995.The children of CWAC depend on our generosity to help them combat the fallacies surrounding HIV and AIDS issues and the fear and isolation that goes with it. Please help us to help children lead happier lives.
Unfortunately the charity is sometimes overlooked however it has some well know patrons and works tirelessly for the underpriviledged and unwell children. Please refer to their website for further information (http://www.cwac.org.uk/).
Thank you so much in advance to anyone who is able to support me.
If you have any questions please call me on 07595273233.
Many thanks
Oliver
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