Raised: 89%
Target: £10,000.00
Raised so far: £8,880.00
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My story

 

Thank you to all who helped raise such a magnificent sum. The residual £830 has been added, that with Gift Aid  reaches the target of £10,024.85.

194 km completed in 58hrs 45mins.

43/78 finishers           (31 abandoned race)

without doubt the hardest thing I have ever undertaken, multi-terrain, dune, rock, day, night, extremes of heat and cold, and negotiating both physical, and mental problems of a single stage endurance event.

photos of the event can be seen here,

and proof of my finishing....here!

race report......here

ANY further support would be gratefully received before this page terminates in a few weeks

Libya Challenge 2nd - 9th March 2008   

New Foundations is a small Cambridge based medical charity providing care to remote villages in the Niger Delta.Nigeria is a hard region to work in and even harder to raise funds for.

 New Foundations has NO paid admin staff and runs on £1500 a month.  In the past two years 5O0cataract operations have been carried out, 16000+ patients treated,4000+ children vaccinated, and rain harvesting systems installed in eight villages. The Charity supports a doctor and ten trained Health Care Workers.  At £4for a cataract op, 4p for a measles vaccination, and a child treated for malaria at 80p this is good value for money..... 

What the funds will be used for:

'In 2007 New Foundations opened a remote rural Primary Care Centre, accessible only by boat in an area beset by high childhood mortality. The money raised by this challenge will underpin the Clinic's establishment over the next few years. Having seen the benefits of simple health programs first hand over the past four years I  COMMIT TO COVER ANY SHORTFALL IF THE TARGET IS NOT MET.'

Genuinely, please give generously , very many thanks in anticipation!   

David                                                                                                                                                             

please make this donation anonymous Donation by anonymous 17/12/07  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

Donation by hugh dawson 16/12/07  

£200.00 + £56.41 Gift Aid

good luck, you and your son are amazing persons!!! Donation by guardian 15/12/07  

£30.00

May your strength and endurance carry you all the way. Donation by TraceurZeno 14/12/07  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

for Luke Mcquires barefoot run for NF :) Donation by david 14/12/07  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

good luck Donation by Carol Lamb 14/12/07  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

I'll be with you all the way....at least in spirit! Good luck David. Donation by Paul Carroll 14/12/07  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

you helped mum, so little from us:) Come back in one piece! Donation by Jacob and Rhys Jackson 14/12/07  

£15.00

CHECK URSELF B4 U WRECK URSELF!! Donation by Julian Donovan 14/12/07  

£50.00

Take your sunblock...... Donation by Julian's-friend-Ishbel's mum 13/12/07  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

Donation by Colin J Campbell 13/12/07  

£150.00 + £42.31 Gift Aid

... and a little bit more for extra luck: will save me spending on coffee which I drink too much of! Donation by rach jackson 13/12/07  

£6.00

You are a star - go for it! Let the "force be with you" (ie my analogy for the holy spirit!) Donation by rachel jackson and nathan chong 13/12/07  

£50.00

Gods Speed Donation by David 13/12/07  

£159.00 + £44.85 Gift Aid

DO ITtttt Donation by bird line broke 13/12/07  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

Donation by Viv and Andy 13/12/07  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

Best of luck. Sounds like hard work! Donation by Jenny 13/12/07  

£20.00

Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run run! Wot if it rains? :-) Donation by Peter Crespin 13/12/07  

£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid

do as you would be done by Donation by david donovan 13/12/07  

£200.00 + £56.41 Gift Aid
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* Total raised online: £4,700.00
  Offline donations: £4,180.00
  Gift Aid plus supplement: £1,144.85

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