The thighs are saying 'no more', the calf muscles are pleading 'gimme a break' and the feet are making a rare request for a massage. This is because I've decided to take on the 26.2 miles that the London Marathon has to offer to help raise funds to support Interact Worldwide projects. And to that end I have strapped on my trainers and started pounding those London streets, the Devonshire hills, the Thames towpaths, the parks and stretching out the aches and stiffness in the gym.

 

 A friend of mine works for this fantastic charity - InteractWorldwide. She has travelled great distances to work with
vulnerable people on the margins of society to ensure that all people get the sexual and reproductive health care and support they need.  Georgia along with Interact Worldwide looks to 'empower and educate communities, train young leaders, ensure very pregnancy is wanted and every birth is safe, prevent the transmission of HIV and ensure quality health services are available', in Africa, Asia and Latin America.



 

 

To give you a flavour of the projects Interact work on:

In Tanzania a project enabled 1,819 to benefit from their first ever
antenatal visits and 1,350 women to receive their first ever post
natal visits.

In remote communities in the Sindh provision of Pakistan as a result of another project contraceptive use increase from 7% to 44%.

 

The work has begun, but there is still loads to do... (To find out more please take a look at the website http://www.interactworldwide.org)

So here's the tricky bit - any donation of any size would be hugely
appreciated and will certainly give me some much needed 'spurring on' on the actual day, Sunday 22nd April.

Thank you so much and if you have received too many marathon donation requests to date and this would be one donation too far then no worries at all and thank you for having a read through.