Hi, my name is Luisa Andreina and I am running the Saucony Cambridge Half Marathon in March 2020 to send medical supplies to Venezuela to mitigate the impact of the health crisis.

A once thriving country sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela has suffered a precipitous decline over the past two decades.There are drastic shortages of both food and medicines and diseases such as diphtheria and malaria are re-emerging. Healing Venezuela is charity that started in 2014 and have been making a tremendous effort to help with the crisis in my country.

Thousands of people have died and its an extreme situation, as a Venezuelan citizen I feel the responsibility of helping as much as I can my people.

I am part of a Charity that uses laugh therapy as part of non pharmacological treatment for hospital patients and their companions @drclownsonrisas https://www.instagram.com/drclownsonrisas/

I started running a couple of months ago and I see it as a therapy that keeps my mind clear and motivates me to do my best in my day to day in the UK while dealing with the crisis in Venezuela that affects my family, friends and fellow citizens.

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