Thank you for visiting our Justgiving page.  Danny Tomblin and Jo Nicholson, both from Adstock, are running this year’s London Marathon aiming to raise over £4000 pounds for Afghanaid. 

Adstock as a village has supported Afghanaid for a while now and has planted a mixed fruit orchard of 74 trees, the profits from which go directly to the charity.  This orchard, known as Adstockistan, has raised £2200 since it was established.  Inspired by the orchard, the money donated will be used to support orchard intervention in Badakhshan province. There is very little arable land in Badakhshan and the majority of the population are forced to exist on subsistence
farming. Planting orchards of fruit trees not only provides vulnerable farmers with valuable income, it also helps to prevent soil erosion in the province’s fragile ecosystem. The money will provide six farmers, from women headed households, with 37 persimmon trees each in the districts of Jurm, Baharak, and Shuhada.

Persimmon trees – relatively rare in the districts – are in demand and command a high price at market. In addition, farmers in neighbouring districts – who have the Tajik variety of the persimmon fruit – have seen huge yields from their trees. This gives great hope that the planting of these orchards will significantly enhance the earning potential of these vulnerable families.

We know that Afghanaid will use the money from this new marathon effort wisely for new projects in marginalized areas of Afghanistan to help with development and emergency survival needs.

Over the next 3 months you might see us running around the lanes of rural North Bucks looking like the Jeremy Corbyn twins but with better taste in shell suits; we ask you to give as generously as possible for this excellent charity that gives so much help and hope to some of the poorest in Afghanistan.