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The pre-race luncheon In the footsteps of Pheidippides | Athens, 31 October 2010 18 Saturday 30th October 2010 Gathering strength Digging into carbohydrates at the Hotel Grande Bretagne on Saturday, the MoMers also learned about our charities, the Battle of Marathon, the history of marathon running, and vital last-minute preparations for their big day. UNICEF’s Coco Campbell reminded those gathered why their marathon-inspired fundraising was so important Saving children across the world Together with a team from Campbell Lutyens, PEI and Specialised Travel, Jo has slaved in Herculian – Pheidippidian! - fashion for many months and for all at UNICEF, she and the wider team have been an absolute pleasure and joy to work with. UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, food, blankets and essential life saving medicine to children affected by war and disaster, regardless of race, creed, status, nationality and political belief. Today UNICEF’s mandate is far wider reaching - we have a presence in 192 countries, working in “On behalf of UNICEF I firstly want to thank my ever-inspiring father, John Campbell. He is a man of extraordinary heart, enormous vision and unwavering determination and this formidable combination is the reason that through you, your supporters and this incredible event – this Marathon of Marathons – that UNICEF, and the other amazing charities that UNICEF stands alongside here today, will be able to carry out their vital live-saving and life-changing work for hundreds of thousands of children across the world. And to the powerhouse of organisation behind the vision for the Marathon of Marathons, Jo Shellard, another enormous thank you. “By running and supporting and sponsoring UNICEF you become the route to rehabilitation for a child soldier in Chad, you become the reconstruction effort in Haiti, the life-saving vaccination in Madagascar.” was born out of a humanitarian response to the children of Europe’s desperate need for assistance in a world emerging painfully from the horror of the Second World War. It started, as it often continues today, by providing emergency healthcare, education, protection, advocacy and much more beyond and we work at every level from supporting grassroots community based initiatives to working with local, regional, national, and international government bodies. Alternative Insight
The pre-race luncheon In the footsteps of Pheidippides | Athens, 31 October 2010 19 Coco Campbell In my role at UNICEF I have been lucky enough to have seen the vast breadth of UNICEF’s programme work in the field – to have seen UNICEF’s unique reach and scope. In Chad I’ve seen UNICEF negotiate at the most senior governmental level the release of child soldiers imprisoned after long and bloody battles between national troops and rebel forces so that these traumatised, deeply damaged children could be given medical treatment before being decommissioned, rehabilitated and ultimately reunited with their families – families from which the vast majority of these young boys had originally been kidnapped. At the other end of the scale I have seen UNICEF staff digging wells to ensure children and families had access to clean water in refugee camps in some of the most hard to reach and remotest of regions – areas completely cut off from the rest of the country during the rainy season when all ground routes are unsafe and unusable and the only access is by air. UNICEF remained. The UNICEF projects that I have seen are only made possible by the generosity of UNICEF supporters - the schoolboy who pledges his pocket money for a month; the company that commits to a partnership; the people who put on their running shoes, many for the first time, and finish that marathon and raise that sponsorship. UNICEF does not receive any money from the UN budget and relies entirely on such voluntary donations. Donations such as yours. By running and supporting and sponsoring UNICEF you become the route to rehabilitation for a child soldier in Chad, you become the reconstruction effort in Haiti, the life-saving vaccination in Madagascar, the emergency shelter in Pakistan, the clean water in the Philippines, the training, the knowledge and the expertise, you become the caring hand and the protector of all children and their rights. You become UNICEF. And for that we are extraordinarily grateful. Thank you. Thank you so much. To all that are running and walking tomorrow – good luck! Stride out strong. Victory will be yours!” Alternative Insight
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