Thank you for visiting my fundraising page!

The Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon will be my first marathon ever .  That's 26.2 grueling miles running!  I'm excited to share this personal goal of mine with you (but not so fast).

In doing this, I had to find a way to raise money for The Chiapas Project and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize concept of microfinance.

"Many organizations raise food or clothes to assist those in need. That is not what we do. We enable small loans to impoverished women; many of whom live on less than a dollar per day so that they can work together to create a business or project. Using that small loan, a borrower might buy a cow to sell milk or raw materials to make textiles. 

With microfinance, borrowers can create a sustainable income for themselves so that, over time, they can self-sufficiently buy their own food and their own clothes. In this sense we lend a hand-up, not a hand-out! We’re teaching people how to fish, so to speak. The greatest part is our 97% repayment rate with borrowers. We take pride in affiliating ourselves with Dr. Muhammad Yunus; the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Grameen Bank."

You have three choices:

1) Donate $$ to The Chiapas Project on my behalf.

2) Recycle to Eradicate Poverty (order prepaid baggies to send in your phones at www.turnphonesintoloans.org/).

3) Do nothing.  

Don't forget me, rigorously training until April 26.  Show your support and leave comments, I'll need it!!

PS.

Donating through this website is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to support my fundraising efforts.

Many thanks for your support -- and don't forget to forward this to anyone who you think might want to donate too!