The Paris Marathon has been cancelled due to Covid-19 therefore, we're re-thinking our Run For Hope fundraising drive for the clinic on Idjwi. Please bear with us as we navigate this challenging time and work out the best way forward to help with operating the clinic.

The people of Idjwi Island (DRC) urgently need a maternity and paediatric clinic. In 2017/18 alone, 17 pregnant women from Idjwi drowned crossing Lake Kivu trying to get to Rwanda or Bukavu seeking maternity services. The alternative route being a 50km journey over the mountains on foot or motorbike on broken roads.

In October ’19, together with Social Business Network, Grant Lang (Mozzo’s founder) visited Rebuild Women’s Hope Cooperative, located on Idjwi Island. After meeting with Marcelline (RWH founder), her husband Bertin Bahizire (GM for the cooperative) and the members of RWH to learn more about how Mozzo could support the cooperative, its members and the community through Mozzo’s C2C Fund™, the indisputable need for a maternity clinic that would benefit the whole island was top of everyone’s list. Mozzo has contributed £15k through the C2C Fund™ to kickstart the build however, we now need to raise a vital £100k in order to further equip and maintain the clinic for 3 years plus add a critical operating theatre. The clinic will fight against maternal complications and the loss of babies as well as providing vaccinations and preventing disease. 

This can’t come from the C2C Fund™ alone. Motivated by the risk pregnant women of Idjwi Island take travelling to receive healthcare, Grant has committed to running a daunting 200+ mile journey from Mozzo World (Southampton) to Paris in order to raise the £100k. Kicking off on 14th October, Grant will run the equivalent of three ultra-marathons and two marathons over 5 gruelling consecutive days culminating in the Paris Marathon on the 18th, joined by a team of Mozzo Masters and supporters.

We need your support! All donations towards our £100,000 mission are received with such gratitude. Thank you for effectively helping to change the lives of the 250,000 people on Idjwi Island.

Below is the breakdown of the costs to complete the build, add a vital operating theatre and operate the clinic for 3 years...

Build completion -$19,220

​Equipment/ supplies - $12,100

​Operating Theatre - $20,000

​Operating costs per annum - $22,800 PA (3 years = $68,400)  

​Contingency – $10,000

​Total - $129,720*

​* £ 99,968.60 (based on current exchange rate)

​= £100,000 to raise!

Find out more at runforhope.co.uk