First of all
-thank you.
Just by reading this, you've already done more than most.
Yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis fighting an epidemic (cholera), pandemic (covid-19), famine, and war ALL AT THE SAME TIME. This nation and it's beautiful people will cease to exist unless we do something.
Some quick stats:
93% of children are in need of humanitarian assistance
Almost 1/5 of children have lost their homes
70% of children don't have access to clean water and sanitation
7.4 million children are in need of child protection assistance
2 million children are out of school
10.3 million children don’t have enough food to eat
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Mission:
Hi, I'm Zak. I signed up to run an ultra marathon (100km) in July but it got cancelled due to Covid. I've decided to still go the distance, but for the people of Yemen instead.
I've asked some very gracious family and friends if they would donate 10cents for every km I run between July 1st and July 31st. I hope to run a total of 240km in the month.
Once again, I sincerely thank you. Your generosity will not be forgotten.
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“I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.” – Margaret Atwood