A MESSAGE FROM SaSaDi's NYC Marathon for EMC Fundraising Page
Dear friends,
This is happening! In the middle of September, I had the last minute opportunity to join the EMC team for NYC's Marathon on November 7th. It's a stretch and I have a lot of work ahead to get me to marathon day but I felt this was an opportunity and challenge that I want to meet.
A huge part of me wishes I had made that decision months ago so I could ease into my training and really build a strong foundation to run faster but I've accepted that this is not about making a certain time, this is about putting my mental and physical strengths to work so I can run/walk this marathon. I'm not fast but I'm competitive with myself so this is a challenge for me to just slow down and find a steady pace, accepting that my goal is to cover the course and finish and it's going to take much longer than I ever anticipated.
I'm inspired by and grateful to be doing this with a team of amazing people all fundraising and running, walking, jogging with the purpose of supporting Every Mother Counts.
I ran this marathon 18 years ago and had hoped to run it again before now, but it never happened for many reasons, so here I am with a new goal, 6 weeks to make it happen and I hope your support with my fundraising.
Whether you can give $5, $50 or $500, I would be grateful. If you need some ideas of where your $ will go...these are some of the ways EMC puts them to use.
$32 can provide essential antenatal and delivery supplies and equipment to care for one woman in Karatu, Tanzania.
$50 can pay for five hours of legal counseling for victims of maternal health rights violations in India.
$120 can provide one low-income woman in central Florida with four childbirth education sessions on breastfeeding,
nutrition, self-care and newborn care.
$150 can provide a clean, safe birth kit for 50 moms in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
$238 can pay for a stocked midwifery backpack of supplies for one student in Guatemala.
$360 can provide individualized education and support on breastfeeding, nutrition, self-care and newborn care for three
women in Central Florida.
$1,257 can pay for a motorcycle for a community to use to transport a woman to a health clinic or hospital in southwest
Uganda.
$4,200 can cover the annual salary of a skilled birth attendant who will see 600 women a year in rural Haiti.
Thank you so much for your mental & financial support. I'm going to need all I can get to do this!
Much love,
SaSaDi
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