<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p><strong>What am<em> </em>doing? </strong>a 200k sponsored pilgrimage walk.</p> <p><strong>Where? </strong>on the Way of St James to Compostella in Northern Spain.</p> <p><strong>When? </strong>17th - 27th May 2012</p> <p><strong>For which organisation? </strong><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><strong>THE MOTHERS&rsquo;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>UNION,</strong></span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> an international Christian organisation that seeks to support families worldwide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Members in 83 countries work in</span> their local community to encourage a better quality of life for all and an end to poverty. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working at grassroots level through projects, training and advocacy work, all visions and ideas are implemented by the very people they affect. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means the poorest and most marginalised people take back control over their own lives and development, finding their own solutions and escape from the difficulties and challenges they face.</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot;"> </span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the problems is to reach out to people in remote areas and this is the purpose of the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">WHEELS APPEAL</span> &ndash; </strong>to provide all forms of transport for Mothers&rsquo; Union workers and volunteers to travel to those in need, whether it is to give advice on hygiene and nutrition, or to provide literacy and development (thereby helping to initiate income generating projects) or to bring relief to those suffering from war or natural disasters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong>Please support<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this worthwhile appeal generously which will make a difference to so many lives, gift aiding your donation if at all possible, and help me to reach my target of &pound;2,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp;quot; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Why? </span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The seed for wanting to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostella was sown in 1962 when I was working in Bethnal Green and attended the church of St. James the Greater on Bethnal Green Road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now 50 years later, as a septuagenarian with creaky knees, this ambition has been reawakened by friends and acquaintances who have achieved their Compostella (i.e. walking at least the last 100km) in recent years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed that I should wait no longer and I feel it is appropriate to do it for the benefit of the two charities with which I am involved (the other being my parish church).</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> Dona</span>ting through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. 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