Hey, my friend Sarah and I are running in the RAK half marathon (www.rakmarathon.org) on February 19th, 2010, here in the United Arab Emirates. That's just three weeks away!! This past weekend we finished the Dubai Marathon 10km race in 1:00:22 as a preparation for the half marathon and we're both all psyched for the 21km race. Sarah and I really wanted to raise some money while we ran.
Both of us LOVE running, the second we finish running. SO to encourage us through our run, we decided to ask YOU to be a part of our run by donating your coffee or movie money to the victims of the Haiti earthquakes. You may have donated in other ways, and I really appreciate that, as do the survivors in Haiti. I was privileged to go to Haiti when working for Royal Caribbean. The cruise line owns a private island called Labadee, where many local Haitians work. Over christmas we were able to go into a village on the mainland and give out gifts for the children. Sarah and I weren't sure where to start when we decided to fundraise for Haiti, but found a way through facebook. Facebook has teamed up with many well known charities and created "causes" where you can go to the site and directly donate to the cause. We chose Oxfam America's Haiti relief fund, here's a blurb from Oxfam:
Earthquake hits Haiti – help urgently needed
Your donation goes to fund this project organized by:
Oxfam America, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
A major earthquake has struck Haiti near the capital of Port-au-Prince causing catastrophic destruction across the city of two million people in the western hemisphere's most impoverished nation.
Oxfam has an emergency team based in the capital responding with public health, water and sanitation services to prevent the spread of waterborne disease. As soon as our assessment teams have a fuller understanding of the emergency needs Haitians across the region face, Oxfam will work urgently to meet them.
The people of Port-au-Prince need your support.
Oxfam has an emergency team based in the capital responding with public health, water and sanitation services to prevent the spread of waterborne disease. As soon as our assessment teams have a fuller understanding of the emergency needs Haitians across the region face, Oxfam will work urgently to meet them.
The people of Port-au-Prince need your support.
To join our Facebook Cause, please cut and paste the following link into your browser and "join cause". If you're not an active Facebook Member, I'm not sure if it will let you donate on the site, Sarah and I are also collecting donations and will be directly donating to the fund.
Thank you for your support as we run!
Hannah (and Sarah)
Hello,
ReplyDeleteFound this blog while googling the RAK Half Marathon, I am taking part in the race and blogging on the build-up at http://blogs.thenational.ae/running_man.
I would like to list some of the competitors raising money for charity and will include you on the list. My email is on the blog if you have any updates.
hey Luke - am glad that the run is nearly here, and glad that it's also nearly over... my knees aren't loving my running. My new hope is to be a horse jockey (see my most recent posting). I'll shoot over to your blog and check it out, good luck with the run. We haven't raised millions, but hopefully will also get some contributions from our employers for the run.
ReplyDeletehannah
( do you work regularly for the national? I have a friend who writes for the courts in AD)