Join Team Alpesh and help Widows around the world

Alpesh Patel is looking for a team of runners to support the Loomba Foundation. Alpesh is the co-chairman of the Loomba Foundation, an UN accredited global NGO, supporting widows globally.

There are 245 million widows and their 500 million children around the world, suffering in silence. Widowed women often experience targeted murder, rape, prostitution, forced marriage, property theft, eviction, social isolation and physical and psychological abuse. Sadly, this issue has remained unidentified and unaddressed in many countries and until recently even in the United Nations. The Loomba Foundation launched International Widows Day in 2005, which takes place on the 23rd of June every year as a global day of action to highlight the plight of widows.

This year, the Loomba Foundation has organised a 5K charity run in Hyde Park on Sunday 23rd June 2013 from 10am to 12pm (full details attached in the flyer), to raise funds for disadvantaged widows and their children and to mark the third UN recognised International Widows Day. If you would like to join Team Alpesh, please email tim.price@theloombafoundation.org by Friday 31st May, stating that you will be representing the City Sikhs Network.

1000 are expected to run around the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park. It promises to be a great event, and all of the funds raised will be used to help end discrimination against widows around the world. Full details of the charity can be found on the website: www.theloombafoundation.org.