Cross Continents for Covid-19
Cross Continents is raising money for Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Team: Cross Continents Team
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Cross Continents for Covid-19 is an international campaign aiming to bring runners from across 6 continents together in support of the Covid-19 relief effort. Our objective is to complete a 48-hour relay, with individuals being sponsored to run or walk for just 30 minutes at an allocated time. As someone somewhere in the world, finishes their run someone else will start.
The money raised will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontierès (Doctors Without Borders) an international charity that, for almost 50 years, has provided medical aid to those who need it most.
Right now, MSF is providing urgently needed medical care and support in more than 70 countries to counter the coronavirus disease. MSF's medical teams are also gearing up to confront potential outbreaks in the hundreds of areas they were already working before the pandemic struck. MSF are deploying medics, sending supplies and applying nearly 50 years of experience fighting epidemics to protect the most vulnerable and save lives.
You can read more about their response to the pandemic here: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/story/photo-story-responding-coronavirus-pandemic-around-world#p1
How you can help:
- £16 can pay for a surgical tunic, trousers and a pair of sterile reusable gloves.
- £28 can pay for protective plastic goggles for four doctors.
- £58 can pay for sterile gloves for 30 medics.
- £110 can pay for five protective suits to keep staff safe.
Coronavirus is an international threat, and so an international event in aid of an international charity seemed most befitting. We hope you will join us in supporting this critical cause. Thank you.
