Friday, December 16, 2011

Time To Provide Support

I have done quite a few things in my life that are crazy.

But a former chanich [member of a youth movement I was a leader in] of mine, David Oberman, is doing something quite ultimate in that category on behalf of Zichron Menachem, a group that provides assistance for young cancer victimes, and I think he deserves support.

If you go here, you'll learn that he has

signed up for the toughest foot race on earth, the Marathon des Sables, in the Sahara desert, Morocco. This week-long event will be several times harder than the hardest marathon I have ever run. I will be running the race in April 2012. I am running in order to raise money for Zichron Menachem, a home for children with cancer. I hope that you will show your support for my efforts, and for these unfortunate children, by sponsoring me for this event.

The Marathon des Sables takes place over the course of one week. Some 800 people from different countries take part. They must each complete around 250 kilometres in the Sahara desert with temperatures sometimes reaching the 50s Celsius, carrying on their backs their entire supply of food for one week, clothes, sleeping bag, mattress, first aid kit and emergency flare, and water for each stage. The course for the longest day is usually over 80 kilometres. Much of the terrain is sand dunes and rocks which trash the participants' feet.

Go to the site to learn some more and feel generous why don't you.

After all, you won't be out in the sun, he will.

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3 comments:

Juniper in the Desert said...

I hope he survives intact, it sounds lethal!!

Anonymous said...

Time to offer support. If you want to hinder the attempted Islamic take down of your country you need to tell El Rushbo to put the kibash on spontaneous improvisations. While trying to make points he pretends to question himself and sounds like a child with downs syndrome. He is not functioning at the top of his game. He needs some intellectual advisors, someone to get him back on track. This next election is going to be a war and he is not prepared to single handedly engage at a level required to be effective. You may think I am making a frivilous point but I feel if Rush continues on his present course this election will be lost. His heart is in the right place. It would behoove your country to have someone talk with him.

Anonymous said...

Want to know why a conservative candidate cannot win a presidential election in the America. Because all the conservatives are worried about what the candidates 2nd cousin was doing with his 4th cousin down on the river 40 years ago. What most blacks are concerned about when they are voting is... ARE THEY BLACK? With house rules of that sort a conservatives destiny will inevitably be that of the dinosaurs.