With 150 people from Dete, Zimbabwe and four colleagues from the UK I ran the Jane Bubear Sport Foundation 10k in Zimbabwe on 9th May 2010 on behalf of the Foundation (www.janebubearsport.co.uk). 

The Jane Bubear Sport Foundation was set up last year to support young people in communities under challenge by the provision of customised sports kit.   In its first year of operation it has provided sports kit to schools in Ghana,  Kenya,  Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe and provided football boots to new Liberian third division side Millwall FC Monrovia and worked with Millwall FC to supply the Millwall 08/.09 reserve team strip to the team.    The larger NGOs and charities quite rightly focus on sustaining communities in need with basic provisions upon which life depends – food, water and shelter. The Foundation seeks to do something much less critical, but nevertheless to provide a real boost to young people by providing sports kit and equipment where it is not otherwise a realistic possibility

The charity recognises it has not remotely scratched the surface of what can be done so please give generously to enable the Jane Bubear Sports Foundation to extend its reach in 2010 and beyond.