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Hello, thanks for stopping by! On Sunday 27th April this year I will (once more) be running / staggering the London Marathon (all 26.2 miles of it) raising money for International Needs – to help them provide for street children in Kenya. Please donate and help me reach my target- from £10 - £1,000 every bit helps! I can't imagine what it would be like to have no home. We all take it for granted that we have beds to sleep in and roofs over our heads. Most all of us get to eat a hot meal a day or more and live in a society where children can freely access their basic right to education. This is far from the reality for street youth and children in Kenya. An estimated 60,000 children and young people live on the streets in Nairobi and this number is growing. The majority of children living on the streets in Nairobi live in informal settlements and rely on scavenging, begging and picking through rubbish for daily survival. Many have ended up on the street due to abandonment, domestic conflict or extreme poverty at home and have had no formal basic education before life on the streets The goal of IN's project is to rescue, rehabilitate and re-integrate street boys in Kenya back to their families and society through a gospel centred approach to restore them. The project is executed by INUK through Grace Empowerment, a local Christian charity in Kenya. The charity rescues street boys and youth and provides them with food, health care, identity cards, clothes and other basic resources at a drop-in centre. Grace Empowerment goes further to support them with non-formal education, vocational training and counselling from the gospel to break them free from redundancy and addictions to drugs. Grace Empowerment has rescued over 100 street boys since it began its mission in 2006. It now seeks funds to build a rehabilitation centre which will provide a longer and more defined rehabilitation programme for the boys whilst harnessing their skills and talents. This will enable them to earn subsistent livelihoods when they leave the centre and re-integrate back with their families and into society. This is now the fifth time I will have run the London Marathon for IN. I'm not getting any younger and 26.2 miles will be a significant hurdle! But for this great cause, I am ready to jump over the hurdle and smash it So please support me in undertaking this challenge by giving what you can to help street boys in Kenya with Grace Empowerment. Thanks for reading this note and I hope that you are now tapping on the donate now button.