Marathon for Haiti

Haiti is a country of nearly 9 million people, 80% of which live beneath the poverty line. This means that 80% of the population lives on less that $2 a day. Poor living conditions, natural disasters, and the depletion of forests and fertile soil all lead to this extreme amount of poverty. With extreme poverty comes sickness, disease, malnutrition and severe injury. When I hear this I wonder what can I do? How could I possibly help?

I can travel there, I can experience it for myself, I can physically help the poor and the malnourished and the sick people by giving them my aid. This is my goal, to travel to Haiti and to actually make a difference in the lives of people in need. To live where they live, see what they see and HELP them.

I can't do this on my own, so I am running the Toronto Waterfront Marathon to try and fund raise the cost of me going there and helping to make a difference in their lives.

Every step of those 42km, or 26 miles will be for the children dying of starvation, the kids faced with severe burns, and crippling injuries, and the children that have no one to care for them. But I can not do it without your help.

I did it!

Well the marathon was on Sunday! I finished, woo hoo! My goal was to finish under 4 hours and I finished 4 hours and 19 seconds! That's close enough for me. It was really fun for my first marathon an I definitely think I will do another one.... some day. I could barely walk after, but my legs stopped hurting yesterday! Anyways thanks to everyone who sponsored me! Here are some pictures from the marathon:

Before the Race

During the Race!

After the Race!