Come along and celebrate our 10th annual WALK FOR LIFE by joining us on Sunday, 26th April, 2015.
It doesn’t seem possible that it’s ten years ago that the idea first started after talking to friends who had also lost family and friends to cancer. A couple of us were planning to fly back to the UK to participate in “Race for Life” in aid of Cancer Research UK but decided we preferred to do a local fundraising event here in Spain.
“Race for Life” started in 1994 with just one race in Battersea Park, London. It is now one of the UK’s largest fundraising events and this year there are over three hundred events across the UK. During the last twenty years, over six and half million people have participated and raised over £540 million.
Although my Competa “Walk for Life” is not on the scale of “Race for Life” – we have grown year on year starting with 12 to over 60 walkers in 2013, having raised almost 30,000 euros for Cudeca Cancer Care.
Cudeca Cancer Care is a charitable organisation that provides palliative care to the terminally ill cancer sufferers within the province of Malaga. It is made up of a team of specialist doctors and nurses who provide care and attention to those who need it with support to the family during treatment and after the loss of a loved one. The care is completely free of charge for all their services; the in-patient Hospice and Day Care Centre in Benalmadena or the home visits within the province of Malaga. Cudeca receives very little public funding, instead they depend entirely on initiatives for raising money to ensure they can continue to provide the “special kind of caring” to those who need specialist palliative care.
There is no charge to join our 5km walk around the village of Competa starting from the Mirador, so please come and join us. I just ask, please that you raise as much sponsorship money as possible.
Day for Life activities will follow Walk for Life, please see next months Grapevine for full details.
If you require a sponsor form or have any questions, please contact me Cindy Jones on 665156467 or email cindyjones19@hotmail.com
Thank you
Cindy Jones
Cudeca Volunteer – Competa
