20-Mile Walk For Children of Chechnya

To celebrate the wonderful summer weather, the beautiful English countryside and our good healths, a small group of us are going to do a 20-mile (32 km) sponsored walk on Wednesday 23rd July through Slough. To help others less fortunate than ourselves, we are raising money for Medical Aid and Relief for the Children of Chechnya (MARCCH) through our efforts.

MARCCH is a great charity with very dedicated and active people doing wonderful and much-needed work in and around Chechnya. So far, they have been able to:

- Provide vital medical equipment and medicines to the main children's hospital in Grozny.

- Deliver 300,000 syringes for TB testing to the Chechen health
authorities; TB is rife in Chechnya.

- Help individuals who otherwise might have been deprived of essential medical treatment such as the mentally or physically handicapped children.

- Provide children with prosthetic limbs who lost their arms or legs in the war.

- Help an orphanage for Chechen refugees in the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia with rent, food and clothing.

- Provide every child in the children's hospital in Grozny who needs it with an oxygenator.

Currently, MARCCH are looking into building a new wing in the children's hospital in Grozny to allow mothers to stay with their children. Today, in Chechnya, women travel long distances every day to visit and be with their children. Together we hope to raise £1000 for this and other on-going MARCCH projects.

Read more about MARCCH: www.marcch.org

They are very worthy of all the help we can give them iA. So please dig deep, sponsor us and encourage others to do so. Every penny raised will go directly to children in dire need of medical help. This is a guarantee from MARCCH.

How To Sponsor Us:

1. Donate online at: www.marcch.org/donations.html

2. Post a cheque, payable to MARCCH, to: MARCCH, PO Box 22982, London N10 3EZ

FINALLY... Please pray for us - that we are successful in our efforts and that Allah (swt) accepts our efforts.

JazakumAllaah Khair

Walaikumsalaam