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Dominique Brownlee and Jenny Weidling

Dominique and Jenny run for Charity!

Fundraising for CAF – UN World Food Programme

£700

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by 15 supporters

CAF – UN World Food Programme

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RCN 268369

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<p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Dear all,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Following a few ups and downs over the last few years our lives are finally getting back to normal. Unfortunately that is not the case for millions of people around the world who battle hunger, disease & death, not only for a few days, months or years, but for a lifetime with no hope of ever seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">  </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In fact, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that of the world's 6-billion-plus people, at least ¾ of a billion people suffer from some form of malnutrition.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-indent: -9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- About 50,000 people die each day as a result of malnutrition.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-indent: -9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- 800 million people know what it is like to go to bed hungry.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-indent: -9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- About 200 million children under the age of 5 are underweight.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-indent: -9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Millions of children die each year from the diseases of poverty: parasites and infectious diseases, such as whooping cough, measles, tuberculosis, and malaria, with accompanying diarrhoea, which interact with poor nutrition in a vicious cycle.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-indent: -9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- One child dies of these causes every two seconds.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-indent: -9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- 15 children have died in the 30 seconds it took to read these statistics.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">For that reason we have decided to no longer stand by and watch this happening but to do something about it by running the RAK HAlf Marathon for charity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">So please dig deep and donate now. EVERY FILS, PENNY or CENT COUNTS!!!!</span></p> <p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p> </p>

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CAF – UN World Food Programme

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RCN 268369

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Donation summary

Total raised: £700.00
+ £13.75 Gift Aid
Online donations: £700.00
Offline donations: £0.00

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