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LivLife are proud to re-launch their Christmas Grotto, bringing you a range of great, personalized cards that will give people in desperate poverty the gift of education this Christmas.  LivLife’s gifts come in a range of sizes & prices from a meal of maize for our kindergarten children to the building of a new education center!

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LivLife believes everyone has the right to live a life free from poverty.
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My Twins, Sports day at LivLife’s Education Center, Arusha, Tanzania

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Kind regards

Tania Bale
African Art Online.Com

People run the London Marathon for all sorts of reasons, some run for fun, some run for a challenge to themselves and some run for charity.

This is exactly what Chris decided to do run the London Marathon to raise money for the Orphans at Meserani Snake Park

Chris had visited the Snake Park while he was on safari in Tanzania, and saw all the great projects that are in progress to help the community in Maasai Land Tanzania.

At Meserani Snake Park there is an Orphanage, so any help is most appreciated .

Here is Chris’s Marathon Report.

Job done, I surprised myself by finishing without stopping. I had only run two miles in the last month as I had various calf injuries so had to rest my legs and then tough it out. I finished in 4hrs 37mins (an hour later than originally planned when training) but am paying for it now as my legs are very sore, walking is difficult and I can only come down stairs walking backwards I should be fine soon. . And not a single blister thanks to 1000 mile socks.

It was a lovely day and really enjoyable. As well as 35,000+ runners there were thousands of supporters along the way and it was very rare that there wasn’t someone cheering us on. As well as people there were lots of different musicians playing along the way including brass bands, rock groups, Japanese drummers, Caribbean steel bands and many others. And in-between these there were local radio stations and disc jockeys playing pop music using speakers that were as big as me! Very noisy!

The weather was good most of the time, nice and cool. It did rain for about 30 minutes and later we had 5 minutes of hail stones.

There were all sorts of people from all over the world running for so many different charities. I saw two wombles (as they went past me!), a pie, three Batmans, nurses, many policemen, a camel and many others.

I saw the Maasai warriors on the way round and passed them on Tower Bridge. They were very popular with the crowd.

Overall a wonderful day with so much goodwill between crowds, runners and each other; it is a shame that people can’t always be like this.

My running shirt and marathon number will soon be winging their way to Tanzania where they will probably join various T shirts on display on the thatched ceiling of a lounge area in the overland camp at Messerani Snake Park.

I have attached some photos but have reduced them in size so they should download easily.

Thanks for all those who sponsored me on behalf of the orphanage building.——————–

I hope that you find this interesting.

Running done, I now have to chase family and friends who sponsored me and get the money together, something that is often harder and more time consuming than the run!

Bye for now.

Rgds

Chris Harper.

Well done to you again Chris and Congratulations on finishing the Marathon, and thank you also for thinking of the Orphans at the Snake Park. You have a big heart.

Chat again soon.

Cheers

Tania Bale

African Art Online.Com