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Beautiful spring day, perfect conditions, slowish start and about 1m off track after 5 miles but then dug in and really motored round the middle of the course, coming home in 1:57:04. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
Just back from skiing on 22 February and it's just 4 weeks to go - back to some hard training to get the legs working and work off the extra carbs consumed in the Alps!
Training Notes - 9 February. Long runs on winter days are building endurance and now I need to add speed. I've completed more than the half-marathon distance, but at that pace would be about 10m more than my 2h target. So, onwards and upwards!!!
WITH A GENEROUS GIFT FROM MY AUNT MARY I PASSED MY £1000 TARGET ON 28TH DECEMBER - THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED! BUT DON'T STOP NOW - EVERY POUND WILL HELP A VERY WORTHY CAUSE!!!
Hi, and thanks for visiting my fundraising page!
I'm going to run the AMREF Water of Life Half Marathon on 22 March, at Bisham Abbey near Marlow, and hoping to beat 2 hours. It would be great if you would sponsor me.
Water of Life is a fantastic programme and I'm really proud to support it - see the 2 paragraphs below for further detail.
Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. It’s also the most efficient way to sponsor me: African Medical and Research Foundation, UK gets your money faster and, if you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation.
Plus Diageo will match my fundraising as well. So you money will go a very long way (much further than I can run!) Alternatively large suitcases of cash are fine too.
So please sponsor me now!
Thanks
Sandy
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Access to water is fundamental to development. It improves health, economic opportunity and school attendance, yet an estimated 400 million people in Africa lack this basic amenity. In response to a UN challenge to companies to ‘adopt a Millennium Development Goal’ last year Diageo Africa made an ambitious commitment to support Target 10 of Goal 7 concerning water. Our businesses in the continent agreed to set aside half of their community investment budget – itself 1% of operating profit – to establish the Diageo One Million Challenge with the aim of providing one million people with access to water every year until 2015. This will make a significant contribution to MDG Target 10, which is to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by the same date.
Great progress has been made.Working with governments and community partners, and supported by the Diageo Foundation, by June 2008 we had begun or completed 40 projects in ten countries. These employed a variety of technologies – boreholes, rainwater harvesting or water filters – according to the need in each area.To mark World Water Day,we commissioned an independent validation (available on diageo.com) of the numbers of people who benefited from our projects in the first year and to evaluate the sustainability and wider economic and social impacts of the programme. This year, our projects provided water for a further 1.18 million people, bringing the total number of beneficiaries from the One Million Challenge to date to over 1.6 million people.