Having just posted a blog about my trip to the Maasai Mara three years ago, the extraordinary people I met, how inspirational the experience was and the artistic influence it had on me I am going to mention them again, very briefly. Six Maasai tribesmen decided to play to their strengths and run the London Marathon in 2008 to raise money and awareness for their remote village of Elaui on the Kenya-Tanzania border. Two out of three babies in their village were dying from water borne diseases and, having heard about the marathon through a non-profit travel company working in Tanzania, they decided to try and do something about it. For the full story visit this website:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3664431.ece
and also read these extracts from a diary of one of the tribesmen about their week in London, the first time they had been outside Tanzania: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/apr/12/athletics.tanzania
This story confirms everything I said in my previous post about these people having the ability to inspire anyone through the way they lead their lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-dAvKttAXQ
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