From the cows that brought you Moovember (https://www.justgiving.com/moovember) - plus two new members of the herd - comes the Moorathon. We are going to walk (and possibly jog a little – we’ll decide on the hoof) the 26.2 mile marathon route through London. And we’re going to do this dressed as cows.

Three and a half years ago we asked many of you for your sponsorship to dress as cows, raising money to build a fence around a school in Sarkathali, Helambu region, Nepal. You responded more generously that we ever expected – we ended up dressed as cows for an entire month, and more importantly the money raised built the fence, paid a teacher’s salary and even contributed to building a new school building.

Today, we don’t know if that school is standing. Sarkathali, and many other villages like it across Nepal, have been devastated by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit the country on 25 April, and the aftershocks since.

Helambu valley is a mountainous region about 70km NE of Kathmandu Valley, and has been hit hard by the earthquake. With many villages in Helambu cut off from Kathmandu by roads that are impassable at the best of times, now wrecked by landslides, or even not connected to the road network at all, aid is unlikely to reach them fast enough, if at all. Mondochallenge and HELP, the charities we volunteered with in Nepal, are raising money to airlift in the food, medical supplies and other support they urgently need.

Dressing as cows and walking through London is, we are fully aware, far too light-hearted a response to what has happened in Nepal – nothing we could do to raise money could reflect the gravity of what has happened. We plan to keep posting information about the reality of the situation, and ultimately to raise as much money as we possibly can for the people who shared their homes and lives with us in Summer 2011.

SO – please give whatever you can afford.

Donate £5 – we’ll send you a personalised photo of us cowing it up on the streets of London.

Donate £10 – we’ll hold up a sign with your name on it in front of a monument of your choice along the marathon route.

Donate £20 – you can dare us to do something. Even something udderly embarrassing.

If you would like to find out more or ask us anything, please get in touch with any/all of us via Facebook. You can read about the Helambu region and HELP’s fundraising efforts here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/megan-tara-blade/nepal-earthquake_b_7150320.html

and via Mondochallenge's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mondofoundation

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Love,

Amelia, Hannah, Kat and Maddy