Thursday 17 June 2010

Great Charity Walk

Deputy Lord Mayor’s Blog 4
We recently had the great pleasure of attending the ceremonies concluding a charity walk in Birmingham organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association involving over two thousand people.
This was a tremendous turnout and no less than fourteen good causes were supported by the sponsored walkers with a six figure total being raised overall. Our photo shows a busy scene at the end of the walk.
A total of £10,000 was raised for the Birmingham Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research alone. This is something I’ve been raising money for over the past year and I’m delighted with this major contribution.
The walk was extremely well organised and walkers came from as far afield as Glasgow, Cardiff and London. The Ahmadiyya Muslims are fully involved with society as a whole, engage with all communities and have the message of ‘love for all and hatred for none’, for which they are persecuted in some other lands.
I thank the Association for their public-spirited example and generosity.

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