Dublin Marathon 2007 : In Aid of West Pokot

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Donations collected in partnership with Grace Baptist Mission, UK charity number 263133.

Final total: £2,714.04. Marathon result: 1,649^th (approx. 11,000 starters), time 03:40:15.

Blog here: http://dublinmarathon07.blogspot.com/

Secure Online Donations

Your donation will be processed by "Google Checkout", who can take all the common credit and debit cards, and process the transaction in a secure manner. You will be passed to an SSL-encrypted page before any card details are taken. You will receive a receipt for your donation, which will be passed on to Trinity Baptist Church in Doonholm, Nairobi, who have overseen many schools in Pokot for several years, with gift-aided donations going via Grace Baptist Mission (http://www.gbm.org.uk), a registered charity.

Here is what your money could buy in Pokot (£1 is worth about $2):

• £7 / $14 buys a desk for two pupils to sit at.
• £16 / $32 pays a nursery teacher for a month.
• £22 / $44 pays for a school matron for a boarding school. (As many of the Pokot are nomads, boarding schools are popular and often the only way for getting a consistent education).
• £50 / $100 pays a primary teacher for two months. New teachers are urgently needed.
• £170 / $340 builds a new classroom. These are urgently needed in many places.
• £1,800 / $3,600 is needed to supplement what the government provides for food at the existing schools each year.

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