I am running the Reading half marathon in March 2018 all in aid for my friend Sidikie Kargbo's charity Project Dream!

Independently founded by Sid and his wife Andrea in 2012, Project Dream is about providing education and supporting dreams in Sidikie's home town of Bradford - a small village on the edge of Freetown in Sierra Leone. Like in many parts of Africa, Sid had very little growing up and struggled to afford education.

In the United Kingdom it is a widespread fact that we take pre-school education for granted. In Sid’s community, the everyday challenges faced through poverty means children miss out and due to the present class room space and inadequate education service, the school is unable to accommodate large number of pupils, especially girls where 60% will miss out.

It is a widespread but unacknowledged problem that girls will miss school because of menstruation!

These are some of the major challenges in the Education and Health Sector which have only been made worst since the Ebola outbreak two years ago. There is no government support and towns like Bradford rely on intervention from individual charities or organisations.

Thank you!