Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

I wanted to give a huge thanks  for your words of support and generous donations (both on and offline), which kept me going around the course yesterday. Fortunately, the sun shone throughout and I staggered over the finish line with no more injuries than a couple of blisters and progressively seizing up joints (both hopefully temporary!). It was an amazing day but I am definitely NOT going to be a marathon addict!

 

If some of you were waiting for proof of completion before parting with your hard earned cash, I have posted a photo. I would be hugely grateful if you would consider supporting this incredibly worthwhile cause, outlined below and it is absolutely not too late.

 Action against Hunger is an incredible charity, committed to ending child hunger and malnutrition.  With 30 years of expertise in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster and chronic food insecurity, Action Against Hunger runs life-saving programmes in over 40 countries benefitting five million people each year.

 

I have included some examples of what they have achieved recently and how you can help below:

 

In 2011, nearly 550,000 people have been supported by ACF teams across East Africa in response to the devastating hunger crisis

 In Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of flood-affected people have begun to leave displacement camps, and Action Against Hunger's teams are providing nutrition support and distributions of staple foods. So far, ACF has provided 49,000 displaced individuals with basic staples in October, along with micronutrient-rich supplemental Plumpy’sup for moderately malnourished children

 

£10 can buy one week's supply of therapeutic milk, nutritional products, vitamins and medicine for a child*

£27 can buy 1 complete survival kit, necessary to save the life of a severely malnourished child in less than 4 weeks*         

£36 can buy 1 mechanical surface water pump (less than 7 meters).

I would be hugely grateful if you could make a donation, both for this extremely deserving cause, and also to help me round, what is likely to be the biggest physical challenge of my life to date (and at such an auspicious time!!!!)

Grateful, as always for all your support.

 

Many thanks

Penny

 

 

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So please dig deep and donate now.