Thanks for visiting my fundraising page.
I have been selected to represent the Great Britain Deaf Women's Football Team to play at the 2009 Deaflympics in Taiwan this September, 5-15th September, and bring a gold medal home! In the last Deaflympics in 2005, I was part of Great Britain Deaf Women's Football Team winning a bronze medal after defeating Denmark 2-1 in extra time.
Unfortunately, unlike many British Olympic and Paralympic athletes, despite our bronze medal win, we footballers and in fact all Britain's deaf athletes receive no form of aid from the Government for training and there is no funding whatsoever to enable their participation at the Games. Each footballer is faced with a daunting financial hurdle of raising £3,000. We are now fundraising to enable the GB Football team to have the opportunity to compete.
From now till September, I will be doing a lot of fundraising events such as cycling around London, swimming for 2 hours etc etc. I will keep you posted about this!
Please can you sponsor me and help me achieve my dream of representing my country at the Deaflympics?
Damaris Cooke
Website links
www.britishdeaffootball.com - For more information on Great Britain Deaf Team www.2009deaflympics.org - The official Deaflympics 2009 Website www.ukdeafsport.org.uk - The UK Deaf Sports Website
