Help!

OK. This is the most important blog I’ll write this year and your response to it will help decide the quality of life for fellow human beings.

On Sunday 6 September, The Waterside Half-Marathon will take place in Derry.  In the teeth of common sense and medical advice from experts around the world (right, I made that bit up),  I will be taking part. (No, not as a steward, Virginia, as a runner. OK, ‘runner’.)  I’m doing it because I want to help raise funds for Trócaire and through them to support some of the world’s most oppressed people. They support people in the developing world to improve their lives, meet their basic needs and ensure their human dignity. They also document human rights violations, challenge those responsible, and help marginalised people, especially women, to demand accountability from their governments.

To put it bluntly, they help people who have shit all in the world stand up and claim what are their rights as human beings.  Get the picture?

Now. My target is to raise £1000 to help with this work, through sponsorship of my run.  It doesn’t take a lot. For example, some 1500 people read my blogs yesterday. If each of those sponsored me for as little as £1, we’d have smashed the target £1000 and then some. If 200 people gave £5 each, we’d hit the target.

There are just 16 days between now and race day. Please, please, PLEASE dip your hand in your pocket and give something to those who have, comparatively, next to nothing. You’ll feel good, I promise you. I’ll keep you up-dated on my blog as to progress over the next 16 days but do it NOW, otherwise you may be distracted by sex, drugs and/or rock ‘n’ roll and forget to do the right thing. So Just. Do. It. Now.

The link is  https://www.justgiving.com/Jude-Collins3/

Go raibh cead maith agat –  my sincere thanks to you all. In advance.

Jude