Zimbabwe, January 2009:  ‘Most ordinary people are starving. Their currency is worthless and their salary does not even pay for their bus to work. You can tell that a hospital is working by cholera patients being brought in wheelbarrows.’  This was reported by Fr Tim Curtis SJ after his recent visit to look at the schools and projects run by Jesuit Missions in Zimbabwe.

In the 2008 London Marathon 25 runners for Jesuit Missions, the ‘Wombles of Wimbledon Team’ had a target of £40,000. In the end we raised over £45,000 which was shared between nine projects in southernAfrica and Guyana.

So a big ‘thank you’ to you and to all the others who so generously sponsored us.

This will be my third and possibly final London Marathon in aid ofMakumbi school and orphanage in Zimbabwe where I taught in 1970. So please, if you can give just a little towards my personal target of £2,000 I would be very grateful. 

My final marathon? Well, as James Bond said (or didn’t say), ‘never say never again’!