Hans my friend is running a marathon
My friend Hans, whom i met last year for the first time in Hawaii, is an amazing man. We all went to Honolulu last December for the final U2 concert on the Vertigo tour. The concert was on a Saturday night, and Hans was in training to run the Honolulu marathon early Sunday morning. As he had general admission tickets, he ended up camping out all night Friday night, sat in the hot sun at the venue all day Saturday, then rocked to U2 and Rocko and the Devils Saturday night till midnight, spent the next three hours trying to get back to Wakiki beach like 20,000 of us, and then had to be up at 4am for the Race!
Hans did well in the marathon, i think his time was just over 4 hrs, even with a twisted knee! And he dedicated his run to raising money for Keep a Child Alive.
Anti-retroviral treatment has transformed the lives of people with AIDS in the West, returning them from sickness to health (this is called the Lazarus Effect). But less than 5% of children with AIDS have access to these life-saving drugs.
Keep a Child Alive is an organization that provides medical services needed to make Anti-retroviral treatment possible (HIV/AIDS). Doctors, nutrition, testing, transportation, and treatment for opportunistic infections are all necessary for anti-retroviral treatment to be successful. When possible, Keep a Child Alive also provides nutrition for its patients.
Currently, 14 million children have lost one or both parents to Aids, and by 2010 the number is expected to reach 25 million. These children will face enormous risks in their struggle to stay alive. Keep a Child Alive builds and sustains orphanages to keep the most vulnerable children out of harm's way. Orphanages are a last resort, but necessary when children have no extended family to turn to for support.
Hans is currently training for the San Franciso marathon in about three weeks, and has turned it in to another fund raiser for Keep a Child Alive. He is blogging about his training sessions (gruelling but enjoyable) and is asking for people to consider sponsoring him for this run. He has met his current goal of $500 dollars, but last year he raised over $1700 dollars! (last year, poverty issues were in the spotlight world wide). I would sooooo like to see him raise as much money as he can for this Organization.
If you remember my walk for poverty in May, if you thought about sponsoring me then but couldnt afford it, forgot, missed the deadline, whatever... what about sponsoring Hans instead? If you only gave $5.00 (the price of a custom made latte), think of how much more money Hans could raise in three weeks.
If you want to check out his sponsorship page, go here:
http://www.firstgiving.com/runforinspiration
and if you want to read his blog about his training sessions (blisters the size of footballs, yikes!) you can find him on my top friends, or go to his sponsorship page where he has a link to his myspace.
Hans did well in the marathon, i think his time was just over 4 hrs, even with a twisted knee! And he dedicated his run to raising money for Keep a Child Alive.
Anti-retroviral treatment has transformed the lives of people with AIDS in the West, returning them from sickness to health (this is called the Lazarus Effect). But less than 5% of children with AIDS have access to these life-saving drugs.
Keep a Child Alive is an organization that provides medical services needed to make Anti-retroviral treatment possible (HIV/AIDS). Doctors, nutrition, testing, transportation, and treatment for opportunistic infections are all necessary for anti-retroviral treatment to be successful. When possible, Keep a Child Alive also provides nutrition for its patients.
Currently, 14 million children have lost one or both parents to Aids, and by 2010 the number is expected to reach 25 million. These children will face enormous risks in their struggle to stay alive. Keep a Child Alive builds and sustains orphanages to keep the most vulnerable children out of harm's way. Orphanages are a last resort, but necessary when children have no extended family to turn to for support.
Hans is currently training for the San Franciso marathon in about three weeks, and has turned it in to another fund raiser for Keep a Child Alive. He is blogging about his training sessions (gruelling but enjoyable) and is asking for people to consider sponsoring him for this run. He has met his current goal of $500 dollars, but last year he raised over $1700 dollars! (last year, poverty issues were in the spotlight world wide). I would sooooo like to see him raise as much money as he can for this Organization.
If you remember my walk for poverty in May, if you thought about sponsoring me then but couldnt afford it, forgot, missed the deadline, whatever... what about sponsoring Hans instead? If you only gave $5.00 (the price of a custom made latte), think of how much more money Hans could raise in three weeks.
If you want to check out his sponsorship page, go here:
http://www.firstgiving.com/runforinspiration
and if you want to read his blog about his training sessions (blisters the size of footballs, yikes!) you can find him on my top friends, or go to his sponsorship page where he has a link to his myspace.