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Page Creator:
Jeff Hardesty
Event:
Whidbey Island Marathon
Event Starts:
Apr 14th 2008
Training buddies:
Allison Hardesty
About our nonprofit:
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural...
Doctors Without Borders Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries. A private, nonprofit organization, Doctors Without Borders was founded in 1971 as the first non-governmental organization to both provide emergency medical assistance and bear witness publicly to the plight of people it assists.
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Fundraising target:
$1,000
So far we have raised:
$813.20
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Our personal message:
Hi Friends and Family,
As some of you already know Allison and I are training to run in our first marathon on Whidbey Island
on April 13
. Many people have been asking us why we want to do this to ourselves and thus far our only real answer has been for health (although our knees may argue with this logic) and a physical challenge we've both wanted to attempt for some time now. Then I came across a friend of mine who turned me onto a good idea that I'm going to steal in hopes that we might do more than stroke our physical egos
this April.
What we're asking of you is to help us use this run to benefit some people in desperate situations by pledging to donate a certain chunk of change for each mile we run in April (Note: marathons are 26.2 miles). At the end of the race I will cut a check to the organization,
Doctors Without Borders
for the total amount raised. This is an organization of committed doctors worldwide providing vaccinations, check-ups, medical care and community support in war-torn areas and poverty-ridden parts of the world where people are dying of very curable illnesses that we haven't experienced in western society for a long time. Many of these places don't get reported about in the news and don't get the yearly runs cross-country to fund research. What they are dying from is not something waiting on a medical breakthrough, they just need willing people, money, and resources--all of which we have plenty of in our culture. If you'd like to read more on what this organization is doing you can go to
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
. If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of you can donate with a debit or credit card securely through this site and receive an immediate receipt for tax purposes if you care to do so.
Our goal is to get each individual who cares to contribute to sponsor us for $0.40 per mile (or about $10.00 for the whole race). If we can get 50+ people to donate that would make a decent sized check to help these doctors in their mission.
Allison and I hope this email finds you in good health and good spirits! Hope to see you all soon.
Love,
Jeff and Allison
Online Sponsors to date:
Display name
Date
Amount
Comment
Bryn and Marcus
3/15/2008
$25.00
We love you guys!! Good luck :)
Lisa Fiscella
2/29/2008
$52.40
if I could do it, you can definitely do it...run like the wind!
Kelley Chandler
2/22/2008
$20.00
You all are, as always, inspirational! Good luck!
cherub cheekins
2/9/2008
$26.20
you guys r-a-w-k!
Cade and Michelle
2/6/2008
$50.00
Good luck y'all.
D & T Twemlow
2/3/2008
$10.00
We're proud of you both and good luck!
Pete
2/3/2008
$150.00
Go for it!
Sue Pace
2/3/2008
$25.00
Thank you for doing this
Jeff Hardesty
1/31/2008
$52.40
Transfer from Paypal donations
Auntie Adrienne
1/31/2008
$100.00
For Your Health!
jessepants
1/30/2008
$104.80
Go get em and don't look back. Hare dalan! as the East Timorese say
Anne Misch
1/30/2008
$10.00
Good luck!
Katie Q
1/29/2008
$52.40
Props to you friends...1$ a mile, remember that at mile 21:)
Jeff Hardesty
1/29/2008
$30.00
transfers from Paypal
Rachel and Amy
1/29/2008
$50.00
tarafourtner
1/29/2008
$10.00
I am so glad you guys are doing this! What a great idea! :)
Jeff Hardesty
1/28/2008
$45.00
Total raised online:
$813.20
Amount raised offline:
$0.00
Grand Total:
$813.20
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