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<p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">May 28th 2011 will be the end of 5 long months of hard work and sweat!!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Weekend hangovers and lie-ins have been traded in for long runs. Watching TV has been replaced by running, Beer swapped for Lucozade and lunch breaks are now run breaks. All of this training, and the loss of 2 toenails (so far) so I can run <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">26.2 miles (42 kms)</span></strong> through the streets of Stockholm and raise much needed funds for the fantastic charity 'Kiya Survivors'. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Kiya Survivors is the charity I ran the London Marathon for. The money I raised was put to fantastic use; however they find themselves in a <strong>crisis </strong>situation. Their school is threatened with <strong>closure</strong>.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Kiya Survivors is a small, British registered, family run charity working with children with special needs in Peru</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma;"> Children that are seen as a curse of God, by their own families, neighbours and communities. Little or no government provision is made for them, and they can be subject to <strong>neglect </strong>or <strong>absue.</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma;">Kiya helps these brave children to make a<strong> new start </strong>and <strong>gain independence </strong>through <strong>education </strong>and <strong>therapy, love </strong>and <strong>laughter. </strong>It offers regular food and showers for the children, most of whom come from very poor background, and it has residential care for children who have no one.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma;">I have been lucky enough to see this fantastic work first hand, where in 2005 I visited my sister who was volunteering as a Physiotherapist at their school in Urambamba. It was an overwhelming day, one that I will always remember. The <strong>smiles </strong>on the children's faces, their infectious <strong>laughter </strong>and the pride they showed in their accomplishments was humbling. Without Kiya these kids would not have had a school to go to at all, and many would be left <strong>hungry</strong>, <strong>unstimulated </strong>and with <strong>no hope </strong>for the future.</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Kiya is a small charity that relies completely on donations. <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">No money is wasted, every penny goes directly to the school and the children that need it</span></strong>. They are in a crisis situation - their school is threatened with closure. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Please sponsor me, to help ensure this fantastic work can <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">continue</span></strong>, please also donate 'GiftAid'. Even if it's only a pound, everything helps.<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">For more information on Kiya see their website: <a href="http://www.kiyasurvivors.org">www.kiyasurvivors.org</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br />Thank you so much,<br /><br />Jo</span></p>
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