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“Run For Syria” Dubai Marathon 2014 – Flea4Charity Campaign

10 years ago | Posted in: MENA, UAE, When & Where, World | 1726 Views

Manal Rostom & Ahmad Ramadan will be running 42.2 km during the Dubai Marathon on the 24th of January 2014 to raise funds for Syrian refugees. All proceeds will go to Breathing Numbers (donations will be transfered through the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian & Charity Establishment).

Breathing Numbers is a project launched by Muna Harib on May 20th 2013. Here is what she has to say:

“The main purpose of Breathing Numbers was to document the stories of Syrian refugees inside and outside the refugee camps in Jordan. The name came from my constant frustration of watching the news and wondering who’s behind the statistics and numbers of victims. Over 80,000 killed, 1.5 million fledged the conflict, 5 millions Syrian living under the poverty line, 4.5 million displaced within the country and now, over 10 million syrians requiring immediate help.

Yet numbers don’t speak to us as humans, it gives us the magnitude of the tragedy yet we can’t relate to it personally. And from this thought, the name Breathing Numbers came to transform those numbers to the reality it represents, and to the stories of humans behind it, people similar to us who used to live the same life that we’re living now before this injustice hits.

I am currently working on the footages and pictures I took during my first journey to produce a documented piece of the stories refugees carry. The documentary will serve as a cry out to the rest of the world and as a reminder for all of us that those people could be us, and without our help, the numbers might loose its breath and go back to being just that, numbers.”

This campaign is organized and facilitated by Flea4Charity

If you have any questions feel free to contact:

[email protected] or [email protected]

For donations kindly follow this link: http://bit.do/syria

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