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Run for life

We are looking for enthusiastic runners to help us ensure that Ethiopian children orphaned through HIV/AIDS, preventable illness or violence can be looked after in their own communities, and that those communities have access to clean water, sanitation and help to provide for their members.

We have guaranteed places in the following races:  

BUPA 10k    31st May 2010

Run through London on the course likely to be used for the 2012 Olympic marathons.  The race starts on Birdcage Walk, St James’s Park and runners pass many of London’s famous sights, including Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, The London Eye, Tate Gallery, Millennium Bridge, The Monument, Mansion House, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Nelson's Column and Admiralty Arch. Buckingham Palace acts as the backdrop to the start and finish

Run to the Beat   26th September 2010

Run to the Beat is London’s music half marathon, beginning and ending at the O2 arena, with live music throughout the course. The south London course takes in the Royal Artillery Museum, Charlton Park and the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. 

Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon 10th October 2010

Starting and finishing in Hyde Park, the 13.1 mile route runs across four of London’s Royal
Parks - Hyde Park, St. James’s Park, Kensington Gardens and Green Park. Runners will also take in some of London’s most historic landmarks, including Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament, Marble Arch and the Royal Albert Hall.

Alternatively you may have your own place in a race and would like to raise money for us
If you would like to get fit, enjoy a wonderful day out and help orphan children please contact us on

info@smcfethiopia.org

or telephone 020 7022 1860/1861.

July 2010

Special film

As a testament to the work that SMCF supporters and JeCCDO have helped to achieve over the past 25 years, we are pleased to announce that a film production team is currently preparing a documentary of our work, 25 years on.

Following an eye opening, ten day trip to Ethiopia, the film team consisting of Stephen Pomeroy, chief executive of marketing communications agency, The Remarkable Group and two young filmmakers, Nic Yeeles and Ehsan Bhatti from Remarkable’s in house video production unit Reko, will launch the film at an event to be held on July 13 in London. More details coming soon.

View the trailer for a sneak preview here.

January 2010

The Twenty5 campaign in the news

Twenty five years ago SMCF and its partner set up orphanages for children whose parents had died in the famine. Click here to read an article in Marie Claire magazine following the lives of some of those orphans 25 years on.

November 2009

A message from The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend Dr Rowan Williams

… I have been impressed and moved to hear of your work in partnership with the poorest peoples in Ethiopia, developing new and creative ways of assisting orphans and other vulnerable children in their own communities. I would like to commend this appeal, through which St Matthew’s Children’s Fund invites individuals and groups in the UK to share in their admirable work. Support to this appeal, enabling high quality and low-cost activity, will help to bring hope and express solidarity with some of the poorest communities in the world.

September 2009

A message of support from The Archbishop of York, The Most Reverend Dr John Sentamu

‘It is 25 years since Michael Buerk’s groundbreaking reports form Ethiopia which drew the attention of a generation to the devastation caused by the famine of 1984. Since that time the work of organisations like the St Matthew’s Children’s Fund has done much to alleviate the poverty and suffering in this proud country.

Please support the 25th anniversary appeal for SMCF Ethiopia and their work in giving children a family, an education and the skills to earn their living in Ethiopia.’