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On the 24th of February, my friend, Elektra and I will be running the Leeds Half Marathon at Temple Newsham. I am doing it in aid of the Nomad Conservation Trust, a charity very close to my heart that was founded to raise funds to help conserve wildlife, habitat and wilderness in Tanzania.

The charity conducts health, education and local community programmes designed to drive conservation objectives into and across some of the most remote and under serviced parts of Tanzania and harnesses the support of communities who live with and beside wild animals to preserve the precious wilderness.

Having grown up in Tanzania, I feel very passionate about supporting such an amazing cause and giving back to a beautiful country I like to think of as home.

Donations help to support conservation and social projects with active commitment to sustaining Tanzania’s wildlife and habitat. A few examples of the projects the charity supports is firstly, Kafika House which enables children from all over Tanzania, to receive corrective, orthopaedic, plastic or neuro surgery for disabilities, as well as rehabilitative post-op care.

Secondly, The Hope Centre runs two safe houses in the Butiama and Serengeti Districts of the Mara Region of Tanzania, which shelter and support those fleeing Female Genital Mutilation, child marriage and other forms of gender-based violence.

In terms of conservation, KopeLion works with local Maasai and other pastoralists to foster human-lion coexistence in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and protect corridors of lion movement between the Crater and the Serengeti.

These are just a few examples of how your donation can make a difference ! Any donation big or small would be hugely appreciated.

Thank you so much !