Andrew Jones' Seeing is Believing
28 February 2010
About my charity
The statistics on blindness are staggering. But people do not go blind by the million, they go blind one by one, and for each person the impact is enormous. Poverty and blindness are a formidable combination, depriving many people in the developing world of basic human rights. Loss of sight often results in social exclusion, making blind people vulnerable to abuse, poverty and early death. Less than half of all children who lose their sight will survive to adulthood. The figures appear overwhelming, yet providing help is simple.
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OK. I have never attempted to use my limited sporting abilities to raise anything apart from a good laugh. However, after around 400,000 hours on this planet (wow that's a lot, especially if you have had to spend more than 2 of them with me), I feel the need to use my body to contribute something back to society. I felt that not only is 'Seeing is Believing' a justifiable cause for which to raise funds, but it also sums up the fact that you have to see me run to believe it.
My aim is to beat my worthy, and substantially younger, peers at Thomson Reuters HK both from a fiscal and also a fitness perspective. I flirted with the possibility of running the marathon, kidded myself that I could possibly run a half...but eventually conceded that 10km is around my comfort zone (actually about 9kms above it, but anyway...). I base this on the fact that the run starts at 5.15am, so I do not even have to fully wake up to run it, and will be in bed again before my body realises what has happened.
Events like these happen only rarely in people's lifetimes, so I urge you to give up a tiny portion of your hard-earned, dig deep into your slush funds, raid your bottox savings, and contribute wholeheartedly towards this worthy cause.
Much appreciated.
Andrew Jones