UAE. The “˜Miles for Smiles’ fund-raising run/walk in Dubai on 22 November has now raised over US$132,000 from sponsorship generated by the field of more than 50 runners.
At the weekend the sum was boosted by £5,000 (US$7,846) via a wonderfully generous donation from King Power International (Thailand).
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That is the third major donation from an organisation in recent days – TFWA Care donated €10,000 during the recent TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes and Gebr Heinemann and Hugo Boss added a further €15,000 from entry fees (and a top-up donation) to their annual exhibition-opening golf tournament.
Essential Communications owner Rowena Holland, the co-organiser of the event, said that Miles for Smiles is likely to be covered by Dubai newspaper and television media, lending crucial visibility to The Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft charity.
The organisers today announced that The Patrón Spirits Company and De Beers have become Gold Sponsors, joining Salter Scales. They join Platinum Sponsor Bahrain Duty Free. Zero Group is co-sponsoring the post-run party.
Runners and walkers registered for Miles for Smiles include:
• George and Carmel Horan, Breeda McLoughlin, Anne Smith, Sean Staunton , Sinead El Sibai, Salah Tahlek (Dubai Duty Free)
• John Sutcliffe and Michael Murphy (ARI-ME)
• Karl Sutcliffe (Muscat Duty Free)
• John Sime, Katrina Cooper, Ann Power, Elizabeth Dales, Sharon Thorpe, Helen Roxburgh (Emirates Airline)
• Brian King (Jashanmal)
• James McLean (Abu Dhabi Duty Free)
• David Bevan (Pioneer International)
• Carole McManamon (Virgin Atlantic)
• Stuart McGuire, Bruce McGuire, Jill McGuire, Alan Edwards (Scorpio)
• Olivier Bottrie, Jean-Charles Séité (Estée Lauder Companies)
• Jonathan Holland (Jonathan Holland Associates)
• Toni Hager (Marc O’Polo)
• Alan Brennan and Nicholas Pilott ( Néstle ITR)
• Garry Maxwell (Premier Portfolio)
• Richard Thorpe (CAT Design/Zero)
• Nadine Heubel (Gebr Heinemann)
• Mandy Shine and Martin Moodie (The Moodie Report) [though the latter is currently lame]
• James Kfouri (Patons)
• Martine Larroque, (Maui Jim)
• Patrick Dorais (Van Melle)
• Angie Mullen (Ultra Marine)
• Diana Albiol (Diana Albiol Media Relations)
• Dan and Mona Kongsted (Valora)
• Mark Holmes (The Brand Distillery – Uluvka)
• Giles Naour and Pascal Blot (L’Oréal Travel Retail)
• Marek Kolasinski (Frontier)
• Rowena Holland (Essential Communications)
• Phil Burdekin (Flight Centre)
• Claire Iredale (French & Lawless)
• Jilly and Jessica Brain (Jakk)
• Gautham Raghani (Jacky’s Gulf)
• Martyn Westbury (Mars)
• Karen Marshall (Marshall Arts)
• Michael Barrett (TFWA)
To donate to any of the runners simply type in the following formula:
www.JustGiving.com/theirnamehere (e.g. www.JustGiving.com/RowenaHolland)
– and follow the simple instructions.
About The Smile Train
The Smile Train is dedicated to helping the millions of children in the world with cleft lips and palates by providing free surgery, free training for doctors and research to find a cure. Since March 2000 it has provided free cleft surgery for 361,323 children whose families not afford it and have supported hundreds of cleft treatments, training and research programmes in more than 64 countries.
The average cost of surgery provided by The Smile Train is US$250. Visit www.smile.org for more information.
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