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<p><span style="color: #008000;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt -9pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I want to help complete the 22 acre <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manchester Peace Park </strong>in Kosovo to support ongoing recovery from ethnic cleansing and war. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt -9pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The site is in Podujevë, a municipality of 125,000 people with</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 51pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>80% unemployment. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 51pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>60% of housing stock destroyed in the war. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 51pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>65% of the population under 25 years. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 51pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt -9pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Survivors of massacres medically evacuated here are central to our planning group and see the Manchester Peace Park in Kosovo as a living symbol of the love and hope they received in the UK. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt -9pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Manchester Peace Park in Kosovo is now almost complete. Thanks to our MAK Runners pounding the streets of Manchester, raising over £18,000 in 5 years, running helped create: </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 63pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace Garden</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> planted with over a thousand trees and shrubs </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 63pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Sports and play facilities </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">including an annual <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peace Park Run</strong> for the community and elite athletes on site (4<sup>th</sup> year)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 63pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Woodland trails</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> with seating and bird-boxes made locally</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 63pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A trim trail </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">for health and fitness</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 63pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Art and Music in the Park </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">with local artists and musicians<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 63pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The MAK Summer Club </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">which holds its 8<sup>th</sup> Summer School on site this summer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 63pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Partnerships with local schools, Handikos, young ecologists and a women’s group</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 63pt; tab-stops: 414.0pt 432.0pt 495.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Five IT suites in schools. </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #006600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ecology projects planned including a weather station. </span></p>
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