Charities

Website: www.treesforcities.org

Description: Trees for Cities started life in 1993 with the vision to establish a charity that would be highly practical and would work with local communities to get more trees planted and green those areas most in need of greening. The Mizuno Running Series are proud to be supporting our work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia which is going from strength to strength. In 2005, with Ethiopian charity Gashe Abera Molla, we transformed a disused wasteland, in to a small orchard of banana, lemon and avocado trees. Since then we’ve developed two other partnerships with local NGO’s. In 2009 we will continue to work with our second project partner, the Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society, to plant a further 1,000 fruiting trees with local residents and community groups, bringing the total number planted to 3,000 since the partnership began in 2006. These trees are providing a sustainable and vital source of food and income to families who harvest the plum, apple and pear trees. Our third project partner is the Birhan Integrated Community Development Organisation and at a purpose-built nursery, together we are helping to train local unemployed women in horticulture. Many of the women are single parents, living with HIV. This is a long-term project, which over the next 5 years will lead to 15,000 native, fruiting and endangered tree species being planted throughout the city of Addis Ababa and its surrounding area.

Website: http://www.fff.org.na/

Description: Set up in 1999 by former 200m World Champion and 4-time Olympic silver medallist Frankie Fredericks, the Frank Fredericks Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to developing and financially supporting young talented athletes of Namibia. The prime objectives of the Frank Fredericks Foundation are: - To promote the development of talented athletes directly or through their clubs or associations. - To give young Namibians who are talented, preferably in sport, an opportunity of furthering their education by creating scholarship opportunities in Namibia or elsewhere. - To Educate Namibian athletes in management, finance, marketing and investment opportunities. - To seek, to identify and promote sporting talents in Namibia in co-operation with schools, sports clubs and associations. - To establish, conduct and manage an institution for the promotion of elite sport. - To render support in whatever form to athletes during scholastic and professional education. - To generally do any act or thing which, in the opinion and discretion of the Trustees, shall benefit the inhabitants of Namibia. - To create, build or erect facilities for the conduct of sporting events and for promoting sport in Namibia and to fully equip such facilities.