Saturday the ICS (International Community School) sponsored a fundraiser walk/run for Einar’s Children's Burn Care Foundation. There is a monumental need for resources for the burn victims, who most commonly are children impaired for life. These come usually from falling into a fire, such as a seizure patient, or hot oil or water from cooking spilling onto the body. Einar is committed to caring for these children and is a passionate advocate for them. He does life-changing work for children from all over Ethiopia and the surrounding countries. We were pleased to see some 300 people show up for the run, including Olympic Gold Medalists Meseret Defar (Athens 2004) and Million Wolde (Sydney 2000), both of whom raised awareness of the need. Of course Einar dressed me in a Burn T- shirt and conned me into sponsoring the fastest runners. It was a good day for a worthy cause. (See slideshow in sidebar.)
-- Don
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