Going to run 10 k up a steep mountain in the alps.....on the 27th of June (Glastonbury weekend)......

Havent done any uphill running practise and the walk up St Michaels hill leaves me wheezing so it will be a challange....Im not going to go on and on about why i chose this charity to be the recipient of any money that we raise...but briefly:
Ive wanted to go to Afghanistan for a while...i have these very naive ideas about wanting to work for Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) or the Afghan Womens network...
  The Afghan Reading Project
The Afghan Reading Project is a grass roots charity based in the UK and suporting literacy in Afghanistan. The
charity aims to:
* support Afghan children's education and foster a love of reading, by providing books and learning materials in
local languages.
* provide teachers with badly needed resources - posters, texts, and is some cases simply a bike for getting to
school.
* help restore Afghanistan's cultural and scholastic heritage by re-publishing classical stories, poetry and text books.
* support women by publishing and distributing books for and by women, and by encouraging their learning.

Services Additional information provided by charity

• Provide books and learning materials to support children's education.
• Provide teachers with badly needed resources.
• Fund publication of story and text books in Pushto and Farsi, including Afghan classic stories.
• Support Afghan women in literacy and learning
• Restore Afghan libraries and school facilities

Recent accomplishments/awards Additional information provided by charity

• A grant to girls at Amina Fedawi High School in Kabul, access to journals, newspapers and magazines. The new library has been set up by the "Afghan Youth Fund" in January 2006 - www.afghanyouth.org
• £350 for much needed school equipment for Lacha Galee Primary School for boys and girls in Kunar Province
• Printing and distribution to school children of non-fiction books including "Drug Awareness for children", "The Borders of Afghanistan".
• £500 raised to equip a new library at Narang High School