I am running the English Half Marathon on Sunday September 16, 2018 taking place in Warrington, UK. I wanted to push myself and graduate from the 10km races I usually run and feel some serious pain. More importantly I wanted a reason to help out an amazing charity that my colleagues and I are involved with through film making. The group of heroes call themselves Saving The Survivors. Their main focus is protecting rhinos that have been left wounded by poachers.

Saving the Survivors was founded in 2012 by Dr Johan Marais to attend to injured endangered wildlife that have fallen victim to poaching or traumatic incidents. Their efforts have been directed at rhinos due to the vicious attacks that many of them have fallen victim to. Due to the escalation in poaching incidents, the number of victims is rapidly increasing. Fortunately many poaching victims have been given a second chance after undergoing various interventions and surgical procedures performed by the team. Most of these animals are treated in their natural habitat as transporting injured wildlife increases the risk and trauma they experience.

Visit the Saving The Survivors YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn_w-zac5yOA4zdJgqjBMGw

Meet the survivors https://www.savingthesurvivors.org/#survivors

The English Half Marathon https://www.motivrunning.com/uk-english-halfmarathon/race/distances/#half-marathon