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Bellevue: Marathon Efforts
 The Amazing Race's Dustin-Leigh Seltzer will use her talents to encourage dozens of teams of relay runners in the Seafair Marathon on July 8. The aim will be to raise money for World Vision AIDS Caregiver Kits. So when she was invited to be team captain for hundreds of runners, who will take part in an upcoming marathon to raise money for people living with AIDS, her response was an enthusiastic “Yes!” The Amazing RelayWorld Vision hopes to enlist 400 runners to be divided into 100 relay teams to take part in the event. Each team member will need to run legs of between 4.7 and 8.0 miles of the marathon course for the team to complete the event. Runners will seek sponsorships for their participation. Each will join the Team World Vision program, which gives runners a way to set up Web sites to facilitate fundraising. World Vision’s goal is to raise $300,000 — enough to assemble 10,000 kits. The kits include basics such as soap, washcloths and rubber gloves to assist thousands of World Vision trained volunteer AIDS caregivers in Africa. Caregivers visit the sick and dying, providing comfort and basic first aid. Sadly, they often lack basic supplies to do the job well. Dustin says seeing the plight of people in Africa living with AIDS, after watching World Vision videos, brought tears to her eyes. “Just to be able to touch these people — even indirectly — through providing caregiver kits — is wonderful,” she says. >> Check out the Seafair Marathon. |  | 1-888-511-6548 : P.O. Box 9716 World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
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