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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Help me raise money for </span><strong><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: green; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Link Ethiopia</span></strong><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> as I run the <strong>BUPA 10K </strong>on the <strong>30th May 2011</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: green; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.linkethiopia.org/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Link Ethiopia</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> works with some of the poorest communities in Ethiopia to improve education for children.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This charity works with severely under resourced schools, where classrooms are often temporary shelters constructed from branches, there are no toilets, safe drinking water or text books and children often sit on the floor to learn. Through partnership with school communities, it helps transform education for thousands of children by providing vital infrastructure such as classrooms, toilets, libraries, and computer rooms.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Now, in 2010, </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: green; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Link Ethiopia</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">'s work to improve education reaches over 60,000 children in Ethiopia. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">With your help, we can give thousands of children a better start in life by supporting educational projects such as:</span></p>
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