Marathon des Sables 2013 Bib 710, 2015 Bib 324, 2018 bib 476

Marathon des Sables
06 April - 16 April of which 08 - 14 April in the sand and rock. Sleeping in a Bedouin tent in a bivouac after moving on foot an average of 40 km per day.

Charity Link - where you can donate for the following  charity
To Children With Love

I'm pretty crap at keeping up a blog.
One more to add to the collection

I'm looking forward of meeting new people and seeing old friends.

In 2013 my house was an MdS warehouse, it's been a lot more civilised this time. I'm not even a 100% done with getting all the stuff. Well, just need some safety pins and hand-sanitiser.

Here is a link to my private SPOT tracker which I'll take.

SPOT

But you can track me on the MdS website and send an email via a link that will appear there next week. Subject I believe is First/Last Name and Bib number, which for me is 476

Not sure what more to write

To Children With Love - My MdS Charity

This episode will be introducing my chosen charity for the 2018 MdS.

The founder and managing director is a lady called Debbie Deegan. Debbie is a personal friend, I met her through my wife, Liz Hoefsmit (was Cusack). Liz and Debbie met when they were 10/11 and have been friends ever since.

Debbie has been working tirelessly in Russia since 1998 with the orphaned and abandoned children of the Bryansk Region and more recently with children in Kaluga, Tula and Moscow Region. Debbie is also the Chairperson of the Russian registered charity To Children With Love in Russia. This is the sister charity of To Russia With Love that strives to raise funds in Russia itself.

More details here:

The Team

ToChildrenWithLove

Mission Statement

Our goal is to support young people to achieve their full potential in education, employment and life.

Social exclusion and educational inequality negatively impacts the lives of young people reducing their self belief, dignity and well being. Our targeted programmes enhance young people’s self esteem, life skills and qualifications helping them to forge fulfilled lives within their communities and beyond. Our programmes have been developed over a 20 year period working with young people nationally and internationally.

This episode will be introducing my chosen charity for the 2018 MdS.

Donations via this link

Helping Children to Reach Their Full Potential

Seven Overseas (not Republic of Ireland) Programmes

International

• Social Integration Programme
• The New Start Programme
• Playroom Programme
• Finale Step Programme
• Mother & Baby Programme
• Sports Programme
• Life Skills Programme

Republic of Ireland - The Rising Tide Project

• Business Bootcamp
• Gardening Programme
• Coder Dojo Coding Club
• Discover Ireland Programme
• Scholarship Programme

Training is going reasonable. It'll be a slow edition this year. But that is fine with me, as I want to enjoy the Sahara even more than the previous two editions.