This year, Catarina and I will be taking on the streets of Paris to run our first Marathon! And Diogo, Nuno and Ricardo will be running their first international marathon! It will be a great challenge for all of us and we have decided to take this opportunity to help a much bigger cause - the crisis in Syria.

The civil war in Syria has been destroying innocent lives for 7 years. One in three Syrian children have grown up knowing only war, loss and pain.

All the funds we collect will be donated to Unicef to be used directly to provide life-saving support for refugee families inside Syria and in surrounding countries including Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt.