This is the first year we have set up a Tampopo 10k running team. We are all running the Manchester 10k on Sunday 15th May. Runners include David Fox, Rupesh Patel, Angela Harwell, Ben Cain, Baljit Banga, Daniel Gertz, Cliff Edisson, and James Ball.
All proceeds go to Mines Advisory Group (See www.maginternational.org). MAG is a humanitarian organization clearing the remnants of conflict for the benefit of communities worldwide - including Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. MAG work in current and former conflict zones, to reduce the threat of death and injury from remnants of conflict. These include anti-personnel and anti-vehicle landmines, as well as rockets, missiles, mortars, grenades, ammunition, small arms and light weapons, and many more types of deadly items. .
MAG also educate people living, working and traveling through contaminated areas, to minimise the risks of them, their friends and families being killed or maimed. They release reclaimed safe land back to the local population, enabling recovery and assisting the development of affected populations. MAG also tackles poverty by training and employing staff from the local populations, in order to build a robust and sustainable national workforce. More than 90 per cent of MAG's 2,300-plus staff around the world are natives of the countries in which they work.
Dig deep it’s a great cause.