Pamela Goldberg
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Fundraising for Breast Cancer Now
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I "Stepped on It" (not in it!). I decided on Saturday to start walking and see how it went. Once I had passed the halfway mark I thought I may as well go the whole way and I have a photograph of the pedometer just as it went over the 46,000 mark. It was a looooong walk but went surprisingly well - hope I inspire others to do it. This is what I wrote before I started:
I am constantly in awe of my colleagues who between them have run marathons, half-marathons, 10k and 5k runs; they have climbed the Great Wall of China and trekked across Mexico (not recently!) and climbed the Three Peaks – in addition to working very hard.
Fortunately none of this is part of our job descriptions which means that I have been able to maintain my slothful status. However, they have now come up with a challenge which even I can’t refuse – Step on It. The challenge is to walk 46,000 steps – around a step for each of the 45,500 women and 300 men who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year in the UK. This may not seem like much of a challenge to you but as someone whose pedometer rarely registers in the low thousands – it sure is a challenge to me!!
In order not to seem too much of a wimp about this I am proposing to do it over a weekend in May - it is I believe the equivalent of about 22 miles so it will be a challenge. I will walk with a pedometer which records the total number of steps and providing I am still able to walk on the Monday will get my colleagues to check it and sign me off.
Naturally I am delighted to share this news with all of you – but not just for your hilarity and mirth – I would really appreciate it if you would sponsor me.
To be really serious for a moment - it is going to be a tough year for raising money just at the point when the demands for research funding are increasing substantially and such good progress is being made. Breast cancer doesn’t recognise credit crunches and over that weekend over 65 people in the UK will die of breast cancer. That in itself is pretty powerful motivation for me but the biggest motivation is the women for whom this is too late but who spent their last few months raising money for research. Alison (who was our first committed supporter when we had two staff and had just supported our first research project) raised money through years of treatment until she died; Liz who raised the largest amount of money we had ever received from an event at the time – just months before she died. She said – “I need to do something big and quickly so that this doesn’t happen to my daughters”. There are many more stories – and also success stories.
Please be assured that your donation will support research which is world class to beat breast cancer for future generations.
So please sponsor me now!