I'm running my first half marathon to (finally) fulfil a New Year's resolution and raise money for Doctors for Nepal.

DFN aims to improve healthcare in rural Nepal by providing scholarships to under-privileged medical and nursing students, who then return to their isolated rural communities to provide much-needed medical care.

Rural areas of Nepal average one doctor for every 150,000 people, compared to one for every 850 people in the Kathmandu valley, and people often have to walk several days to reach basic healthcare. By training students from rural areas in community based medicine, there is an opportunity to raise the standards of medical care in rural areas closer to that received by the urban population.

To find out more about the great work DFN do, visit http://doctorsfornepal.org

Thanks for your support!