I am rasing money for the Smile Train  by running a half marathon. This charity specialises in carrying out operations on children across the developing world born with Cleft Palates. Every £150 raised pays for 1 operation and transforms a life. Below is text from the website showing how big an impact it can have :-

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Little Pinki suffered for 6 long years.
Treated like an outcast, tormented by children who threw rocks at her and called her Torn Lip. Never allowed to go to school. There were times when her father thought she’d be better off dead.
Then one day, a social worker told her parents about The Smile Train. Pinki and her Dad walked 70 kilometers and she received free surgery that gave her not just a new smile, but a second chance at life.
Millions of children just like Pinki are waiting for the same life-changing surgery. Some have been waiting for 10, 15 even 25 years.

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I am looking to raise £300 to pay for operations to transform 2 lives by running the Stratford-Upon-Avon half marathon on the 8^th May. I am not much of a runner and prior to xmas the furthest I had ever run was about 1 mile so training has certainly been a challenge!!

The charity website is  - http://www.smiletrain.org/

Thanks for your support,

Rich