Carmine De Grandis
Mr De Grandis' page
Fundraising for Building Schools for Africa
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Updated on Aug 5th 2011 at 6:58 AM from the JustGiving API
We Are now close to £2000 towards the building of a new School. Thank you so much one and all! I will keep the justgiving Page Open until September... So if anyone wants to' fundraise that would be' amazing.
Updated on Jul 25th 2011 at 3:26 AM from the JustGiving API
Thanks to a very generous donation we have now raised £1000. One week to go... Maybe we will double that by race day... We are now on the way to Dover.
Updated on Jul 13th 2011 at 6:13 PM from the JustGiving API
more than 72 million children worldwide do not have access to primary school education today! I am running to make part of this problem disappear. Please, donate or share my cause with as many people of good will as possible. Current total £521. Target £7500. Days left to the race: 18. Training miles to go: 80 + 26.2
Updated on Jul 9th 2011 at 9:22 PM from the JustGiving API
Thank you so much, everyone... The new total raised so far is £491.00... Almost the first £500 to go towards a new school in Africa... It motivates me to get up before 6:00 and go for my long hilly run (15 miles before proper breakfast). Thanks and night night
Updated on Jul 7th 2011 at 8:45 PM from the JustGiving API
Great event... Tickets for the Swiss Alpine and confirmation of entry/information pack has arrived... No turning back... Better I go for that 5 miles run I was hoping to miss tonight... See you in a bit. Maybe you could visit www.justgiving.com/carmine-de-grandis. We are supporting the building of a new school where education is the only hope of a better life for so many. Ciao Ciao
Updated on Jun 28th 2011 at 7:30 PM from the JustGiving API
Wow! We have raised £130 in a day. £218 is the current total! A big thank to all those who have donated towards building a school in Africa... Let's keep spreading the word (share with your contacts the link, please) www.justgiving.com/carmine-de-Grandis
Dear friends, colleagues, parents and students ,
I am sending this email in the hope that you will consider sponsoring me as I raise funds for the building of a new school in Cameroon (Africa). This is a really worthy cause... the school buildings, once built, will have a life of at least 40 years so that the local young people will not have their education ruined by falling down buildings or lack of basic resources (desks, chairs and black/white boards).
To do so I will be running one of the toughest Alpine marathons. This Swiss Alpine Marathon takes place on 30th July in Switzerland (www.swissalpine.ch).
I am working really hard to succeed in both aims and as I go through some really demanding training, I would really like to focus my mind and the mind of those who know me on the dreadful situation faced by many young people around the world. These young people are often denied the basic to right to being educated on the basis of issues such as lack of funds to provide them with buildings (as it happens to be the case in Cameroon).
A whole school can be built with £20,000... my aim is to raise awareness and hopefully raise at least £7500... I know I am setting my sight quite high, but if the cause is publicised and many students/teachers/families and others get on board, this is not an impossible dream/goal.
I have run almost 2000 miles over the last two and a half years both in Norfolk and in the Mountains (Italy, Switzerland and the UK) to prepare for this race and I have researched thoroughly the cause which I have linked it to.
I am far from feeling ready, but I have now entered for this race and I am determined to finish it. I have succeeded in the "Solomon South Downs Marathon" earlier this month and I am now trying to continue the final stages of my training before the big day. This weekend I will be running the Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon and I hope I will be on track again.
Looking up, Going High, Preparing and Enabling Success, Going the Distance, One step after the other are all meaningful ways of looking at images which will highlight similarities between this hard race and the struggle to help all young people access a decent education worldwide.
Please, if you can, support this cause by donating something. If you are passionate about education and have a few or many friends, spread the word and send them this link http://www.justgiving.com/carmine-de-grandis/
You can also follow my training and updates on facebook
Ciao and Thank you
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