Yes this fundraising project is still running. You can make your donation via our website and send us an email with proof of your $120.00 donation including your home address and we will gladly send you an autographed photograph.

Should you have any further queries please don’t hesitate to email bella@sa-yes.com

We wish you a wonderful day and a very happy festive season.

Best wishes,
Bella
The Fundraising Team

Thank you for your kind words, and thank you so much for your generous donation, it is greatly appreciated! Yes, I am sure we all had moments of dread, doubt and despair at some point during training, and during the actual race. I know I had my moments! For me though, it was sheer will power, determination, and occasionally reminding myself of the reason why I was doing this, and who I was doing it for that got me across the finish line. Well worth it in the end!

Thanks to all that helped form ‘TEAM OTSK’. Roll on next year!!

Thanks again Keith

Best wishes,
Julie

Thank you for your reply and kind words. I was disappointed to learn that OTSK didn’t win a place in next year’s London Marathon. Maybe it’s time for two London Marathons each year – spring and autumn? There would be no trouble filling both events.

No I won’t be running on behalf of OTSK. I walk more than a marathon to and from work each week and that occupies in total over eight hours weekly. No records broken there!

The funds I am saving to sponsor an OTSK team will still benefit OTSK but without any of the treadmill training, tears and torn muscles!

Best wishes,

Keith

Thank you for taking time away from your busy life to write and illustrate an account of the OTSK team’s splendid achievement in the recent “Run To The Beat” in London.

Thank you to ALL members of the team for their selflessness, sacrifice and support of OTSK.

I admire the discipline, devotion and determination of those who endure the discomfort and the pain of intense physical activity to the benefit of those less fortunate than themselves.

To balance those positive “d” words I imagine that there must be times of negativity, of doubt, despair and dread as another practice session starts; the rain pours and the battery in the MP3 player succumbs miles from home at the moment when the need for music’s inspiration and encouragement is at its greatest. The loneliness of the long-distance runner.

Judging from the weather here in Reading conditions on 26th were ideal for running; cloudy and reasonably cool. I hope that the sun had the good grace to show its face in recognition of your success at the finish.

I regret that I was unable to sponsor every member of the team. As many entries in my school reports record, “Keith must try harder if he is to succeed”. Well I am trying harder and have my sights focused on next year’s London Marathon. I’m looking forward to news from Michelle and the team about the OTSK representation at an event that continues to amaze and move me. Sponsorship funds are accumulating steadily!

Best wishes,

Keith Shone

Reading
Wednesday 13 October 2010

I found it a bit confusing that you were looking at a list of 45 children’s homes “in the area” – this seemed to imply that there are 45 in Khayelitsha, but I think that number is for the whole Western Cape?

Otherwise, great story and well written.

Regards,
Sandra