Monday, March 26, 2012

I'm Going to Tanzania!

As you probably know by now, I'm going to Tanzania this summer to volunteer with Support for International Change in an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign. I'll be staying in a with a local family in a rural community, and educating the community on HIV/AIDS, while training peer educators, so that our intervention can have a sustainable impact there. Today, one in twenty people in Tanzania are HIV+. I want do something about that.


I'm very excited (although so far all of the Swahili I have learned is "Hakuna Matata"), but I need to come up with about $3000 plus airfare to cover all the costs. To help do this, I have set up a fundraising site, and for ever $10 donated, I'm going to run a mile. So the overall purpose of this blog is to track my fundraising and my running. This way you can be sure I'm actually logging the miles you paid for! (If you really want to be sure, feel free to bike along side of me.)

For each sponsored run, I'll give a shout out to whoever donated, and a brief description of the run (where I went, what the weather was like, who I was with, music I listened to), and anything interesting that happened (dog bites, tripping, running into trees, almost getting run over, finding $5 - all of which have occurred in the past month or so). 

I'm also more than happy to take special requests such as running in memory/honor of someone, taking pictures of where I go, listening to requested songs, doing hill workouts, wearing specific apparel (that I already own - if I was made of money, I wouldn't need to fundraise!) such as this great shirt created for our Ragnar Relay team: 


I also would not be opposed if you request that I eat cookies and watch TV instead...


Aside from a donation and running log, I'll keep this up to date with what I'm learning in my Pre-Field training and other relevant (or irrelevant) topics that come up along the way. 

Always feel free to contact me with questions, requests, suggestions, etc.

And thanks in advance for your support!

Natalie

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