Charlie & Gig and neighbours Rob and Mel have recently caught the fitness running bug. I think Rob & Charlie caught it first about 18 months ago and Mel & Gig are slowly catching up. In the last 18 months Rob put us all to shame by running a half-marathon and Charlie by losing 2 stone and his jowlathon (chubby cheeks). The Green running machine has seriously been put through its paces and we are already on the 2nd machine.

Charlie & Rob are aiming to run this 10km multi-terrain race in under 60 minutes. Gig & Melly on the other hand, are aiming to run the 5km part of it and simply finish.

We are running in aid of Vila Maninga which is a small amazing community in rural Mozambique supporting and working with poor and vulnerable children and adults. The small charity that Gig runs here in the UK entirely supports Vila Maninga's survival and we are aiming to raise funds to build homes for the elderly at the project. There are regularly elderly people turning up at the project who are homeless and have no-one to care for them. At present the project can't always help. So it is in the process of building more homes. Anyone who works for the charity here in the UK, including Gig, does so voluntarily so over 99% of all donations goes direct to the work in Mozambique. It is a unique and amazing grassroots project in the middle of rural Mozambique. www.vila-maninga.org

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