Here I am again – this time I am planning to run

Edinburgh Marathon – 27 May 2012

Great North Run half marathon – 16 September 2012

Ipswich half Marathon – 23 September 2012

Three journeys, total miles: 52.4, one cause: to raise funds for Mercy Ships. www.mercyships.org.uk Last year I managed to raise £650 for Mercy Ships with your kind donations. But Mercy Ships still need our help. So I thought I would do it again, put on my running shoes and clock up some more miles. Any donations no matter how small will be gratefully accepted.

Mercy Ships have just completed a 10 month field service in Sierra Leone and are now preparing to sail the Africa Mercy, the world’s largest charity hospital ship to meet the overwhelming needs of Togo. People there live in great poverty with little or no health care, and the country is ranked amongst the poorest countries in the world.

The purpose of Mercy Ships is to work together in the poorest nations to help mend lives broken by disfiguring and life-threatening diseases. For some, life itself is at serious risk while others face ridicule and exclusion from their communities.

Funds raised will help provide life-changing medical treatment to those in desperate need.

Mercy Ships provide free medical care and humanitarian aid to thousands of the world’s poorest people. The surgeons, nurses and dentist volunteering on board Africa Mercy perform free surgeries such as tumour removal, cleft lip and palate correction, cataract removal, orthopaedics and skin graft for burns victims.

Hopefully you will decided to help me reach my goal so that Mercy Ships can continue to do their amazing work – for that I'd like to say a HUGE THANK YOU, every penny counts.

You can also donate by text message - just text RUNN51 £1 to 70070 - to donate £1 (you can of course put any number behind the pound sign - smile)

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

So please dig deep and donate now.

Fuer dieses Jahr habe ich mir vorgenommen wieder etwas fuer einen gemeinnutzigen Zweck zu tun und Gelder fuer Mercy Ships sammeln.

Ich werde einen Marathon und zwei Halb-Marathon laufen.

Bitte unterstuetzt mich bei meinem Versuch so viel wie moeglich fuer diesen fabelhaften Verein zu sammeln. Es handelt sich um ein Krankenhausschiff das medizinische Hilfe kostenlos fuer beduerfige leistet.