Thank you for visiting my fundraising page!

Donating through this website is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to support my fundraising efforts, and all money raised goes directly to Friends of the Good Samaritan Orphanage Inc.

Friends of the Good Samaritan Orphanage is a non-profit organization which strives to enhance the lives of children with physical and mental special needs living in an orphanage named "Hogar de Ninos Buen Samaritano" located in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.  The organization's mission is to raise funds to support the children's daily needs and enhance their quality of life, and also to support a  building expansion effort to increase the capacity of handicapped children and add abandoned elder women to the existing community of 70 boys and girls.  

"Hogar de Ninos Buen Samaritano" is run by Sister Maria del Carmen Huezo Superiora and her staff of eleven.  The children they adopt are those abandoned by parents who cannot care for them due to their handicaps, and they reach the home via referrals from public hospitals or people who drop them off at the gate. Once at the orphanage the children are treated with love, care, respect and dignity.

The orphanage provides much needed services to some of the poorest children in the world who are lacking basic necessities such as food, clothing, medicine and love, and Friends of the Good Samaritan Orphanage Inc. helps support their efforts. If you feel this is a worthy cause, or if you just find the thought of me running a marathon hilarious, please consider making a donation. Gifts of any amount, large or small, are greatly appreciated.

This will be my fourth marathon - previously I have run the NY, San Francisco and Gasparilla Tampa Bay marathons - but it will be the most meaningful for me because it is the first time I am raising money for a charity.

Many thanks for your support -- and please feel free to forward this to anyone you think might want to donate too!