Hello super troopers!

I am preparing to do Run to the Beat www.runtothebeat.co.uk on behalf of Merlin. 

It is an interesting moral dilemma.  Do we, as a business, support local UK organizations? We indeed require support, we too get affected by natural disasters, poverty etc.  However, my view is that we have no idea what living in fear is really  like as communities go.  We are still a rich country, whatever the economic climate is like.  It is the support organizations that poorer countries lack.  So I am supporting Merlin, and will run my socks off for them on 5^th October.

Merlin is a British medical charity driven by one aim: to provide health care for people at times when they are most in need.  Their medical teams act fast to help people during emergencies. They work in the world’s most difficult and dangerous environments: in countries ravaged by civil war, blighted by drought, devastated by earthquakes and landslides.

To date, Merlin has worked in 39 countries and responded to some of the most serious humanitarian emergencies of recent history. These include the Rwandan genocide, Hurricane Mitch, the 2003 Iraq War, the tsunami, Darfur, and the Myanmar cyclone. As we celebrate our fifteenth birthday, we are poised to become one of the world’s leading medical aid agencies, with ambitions to expand our capacity for emergency response and to launch new operations in Zimbabwe, Yemen and Sierra Leone.

If you would like more information about Merlin, please do visit their website at www.merlin.org.uk