Dave Denton, the organiser of numerous Junior Fell Races, including those that are on the same evening as the Parwich Panoramic Five, ran in Buxton carrying the Olympic Torch. He said that it was the most wonderful experience.
We are extremely fortunate in Parwich, as he is going to bring his Olympic torch on Tuesday evening. Throughout 2012 he is hoping to raise £10,000 to enable his charity, IDEAS to either build a school in India or to convert a building to provide a permanent base for a school currently in rented premises.
If you would like to have your photo taken with the torch, David would encourage you to make a donation to the charity, however large or small. He will also be raffling the torch later this year and on Tuesday he will be selling tickets at £5 each or 5 for £20.
His charity, “IDEAS”, which stands for International Development through Education, Art and Sport, was set up to help poor families in Kerala, South India. It also provides educational opportunities for children from poor families, to provide help with medical care and costs, to help provide opportunities to create self-employment projects and to generally help where need arises. To date, they give a monthly allowance to over 30 families; fund 2 after-school tuition centres; have bought over 45 goats to provide nutritious milk for families; funded training schemes including a recent one for rural Muslim women to learn how to make artificial flowers to sell on; paid medical bills for many people including 3 men paralysed through industrial accidents; provided play equipment at a school and also arranged for some people from the UK to spend time teaching and generally helping out at a local school.
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