We are proud to announce that our Consultant General Surgeon and Managing Director, David Deardon has joined the AKIN Sierra Leone (Association for Kids In Need) a well known local Gibraltar charity and Ibex insurance to help raise money for the UK based charity - “Street Child of Sierra
Leone” (www.street-child.co.uk).
Please see the Press Release below for all the details of the marathon event. We would be very grateful if anyone wanted to support David in running in this event, please go to the website below and type in David Deardon. http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/IbexAkinKilnSLMarathon
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| The AKIN Sierra Leone Team! |
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| The AKIN-IBEX Sierra Leone Team! |
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| David (2nd from right) and the AKIN team filling boxes with books, toys and school provisions for the school children of Sierra Leone. |
Marathon
fundraising by AKIN supporters and Ibex staff
Members
of the well known local charity AKIN Sierra Leone (Association
for Kids In Need – www.akincharity.org) and
staff at Ibex Insurance have joined forces in an ambitious fundraising project
to raise funds for UK charity “Street Child of Sierra Leone” (www.street-child.co.uk) who
have organised a marathon event in Sierra Leone.
The
group is made up of six AKIN supporters and six Ibex staff members and they
will take part in a combination of long distance running events on the 9th
June in Sierra Leone. The team have set a target of raising at least £15,000!!
So far they have organised a bingo night and quiz nights and have raised
£11,000 through events and online donations. The team has also organised a 12
hour treadmill marathon and a raffle for the 26th May and hope that
with these two events and more online donations they will achieve the target
and go beyond!
They
will travel to Sierra Leone on the 2nd June and will be there for 10
days, visiting a number of schools which have been refurbished or built with
funds raised by AKIN in Gibraltar and will also be visiting new school projects
for consideration during 2012.
The
main running events are a full marathon event (42kms) and a half marathon event
(21kms) which will be run along mainly packed mud roads. The runners will have
to contend with high humidity, hilly and uneven ground, temperatures in the
high 20’s and the possibility of tropical rain making the course even more
difficult!
Jimmy
Bruzon, AKIN’s Sierra Leone project coordinator who was in Sierra Leone in 2006
says: “Going back to Sierra Leone will be a dream
come true. It will be fantastic to see the impact that our school refurbishment
projects have had on the communities which we have supported over the last few
years. It will give us a wonderful opportunity to identify new school projects
and to raise awareness and much needed funds. I would like to thank the people
of Gibraltar for their generosity during recent years and ask them to continue
to support the school projects, together we are making a huge difference to
many needy communities. The running event will be important, it is not about
the running though, its more important than that.”
The AKIN team is made up of
Alan Hernandez, David Deardon, Harry Pallas, Jimmy Bruzon, Mark Dellipiani and
Lloyd Devincenzi. The Ibex team is made up of Alicia Torrecilla Cortes, David
Whitmore, Elainne Perez, Lianne Gilbert, Phil Langley and Richard Hill.
Each member of the team will
pay their own travel costs in full in order that every penny raised goes
towards the ambitious target of £15,000.
