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About the Charity
The Alexandra Centre, Onesti, Romania, originally built in 1969 as an orphanage for children, has been transformed in to a centre to provide education and residential care for a variety of disadvantaged and handicapped children from birth to 18 years. The centre caters for 130 children with various needs and handicaps, with also a day school for 85 children and a unit for the handicapped.
King Edward's School, Southampton Hampshire, started its own project (The Romania Project) to help support the centre. Both with financial help to run the centre and develop the care offered, but also to allow students to visit the centre every year to promote students knowledge of the plight of these children and to promote student involvement in centre.
About the Sahara Race On the 24th September I will compete in a self supported foot race across 150 miles of some of the world's most inhospitable terrain in daytime temperatures reaching in excess of 100 degrees. Competitors will race across six separate stages over seven days with distances ranging from 10 to 50 miles per stage. I will be expected to run with all the equipment I require strapped to my body with only 9 litres of water (which must be carried) being provided each day. Tight time restrictions apply for every stage, and this together with carrying all the supplies required to survive in one of the most inhospitable terrains in the world, will prove to be the biggest personal challenge any athlete could face. At the end of each stage I must secure what rest I can in a communal tent shared by the competitors in the race. My Personal Message: "I hope that The Sahara Race will raise considerable funds for the children of The Alexander Centre. I have always wanted to accomplish something which I will remember as a lifetime achievement and this also gives me the opportunity to support a very special charity. Your generous support will keep me going while running across the desert. Thank you."
The Alexandra Centre, Onesti, Romania, originally built in 1969 as an orphanage for children, has been transformed in to a centre to provide education and residential care for a variety of disadvantaged and handicapped children from birth to 18 years. The centre caters for 130 children with various needs and handicaps, with also a day school for 85 children and a unit for the handicapped.
King Edward's School, Southampton Hampshire, started its own project (The Romania Project) to help support the centre. Both with financial help to run the centre and develop the care offered, but also to allow students to visit the centre every year to promote students knowledge of the plight of these children and to promote student involvement in centre.
About the Sahara Race On the 24th September I will compete in a self supported foot race across 150 miles of some of the world's most inhospitable terrain in daytime temperatures reaching in excess of 100 degrees. Competitors will race across six separate stages over seven days with distances ranging from 10 to 50 miles per stage. I will be expected to run with all the equipment I require strapped to my body with only 9 litres of water (which must be carried) being provided each day. Tight time restrictions apply for every stage, and this together with carrying all the supplies required to survive in one of the most inhospitable terrains in the world, will prove to be the biggest personal challenge any athlete could face. At the end of each stage I must secure what rest I can in a communal tent shared by the competitors in the race. My Personal Message: "I hope that The Sahara Race will raise considerable funds for the children of The Alexander Centre. I have always wanted to accomplish something which I will remember as a lifetime achievement and this also gives me the opportunity to support a very special charity. Your generous support will keep me going while running across the desert. Thank you."