Greetings! I've been lucky enough to be selected to go to Alexandra in South Africa to teach for 6 weeks this summer, with the University of Warwick. This township is in a very deprived area, where you'd be lucky to find chairs in a classroom let alone the interactive whiteboard that are common place to us.

I hope to take some things with me to leave there, giving teachers more options of how to teach. Even simple items like blackboards and chalk in every room would be such a gift to them. This is where you come in!

To allow me to do this, I have decided to run the 13.2 miles around Coventry in the Half Marathon in May and politely request, encourage and beg you - if you have anything to spare, please give whatever you can to give these pupils the chance to escape the poverty they are in.

Some of these children walk 4 hours to get to school each day, please help me to reward their efforts.

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