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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Colombia today 42% are poor and 12% are homeless.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Colombia 3 million people are displaced by violence, 2.5 million of which are children</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These children are torn between malnutrition, ignorance and poor health.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">WHY THIS CHARITY?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #272727; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">FOCSA is committed to improving the lives of some of these children.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #272727; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since 1976 it has continuously donated medical and educational equipment to institutions that either lack government funds or cannot cope with the demand of services.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #272727; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Today FOCSA continues to do its utmost to alleviate those needs and this year our goal is raise £7000 to equip a health centre and its mobile unit in Boyacá- Colombia.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Timely and efficient provision of primary health care in remote or difficult access areas could be the difference between life and death.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">WHY ME? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For the 6<sup>th</sup> time this year I am going to run the 5K Adidas Challenge in Hyde Park on September 11, 2011 to raise funds and support FOCSA on this project which will benefit the children of Tuta- Boyaca and many other neighbouring municipalities.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I know it's not the marathon, just 5K, which may not sound like much, but believe me I'm not a natural runner and have a pair of wobbly knees, so for me it's plenty.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">WHY YOU?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dear friends, I need all the help you can offer to achieve this goal. All donations are most welcome and please remember is for a very good cause. I am incredibly grateful to all of you who have sponsored me in the past and I’m counting on you again this year. It all adds up so it doesn't matter if it's only a small amount.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Donations through this site are secure and please remember to tick the Gift Aid box if you're a UK taxpayer then they get an extra 25% in Gift Aid as well and a 3% supplement, but it costs you nothing more. </span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
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