Charles Lawley from Chapel is running 170 miles around the High Peak in aid of Syria relief. Charles spoke to HPL “Between Thursday 24th Sept and Sunday Nov 1st I’m going to run 170 miles around the High Peak. Charles said that He is raising money for High Peak Foodbank and Syria Relief.
All donations are split 50:50 between the two causes). I’m born and bred round the high peak so think it’s really important we support vulnerable families around here, especially as COVID-19 has increased the need locally exponentially.
“We’ve all been affected by this pandemic in some way and unfortunately for a lot of people that has been a financial impact. I work as Head of Advocacy for Syria Relief and have been passionate about helping Syrian people impacted by the brutal civil war there, which has been going on nearly 10 years now. Syria Relief run 306 schools and oven a dozen hospitals and health care centres inside Syria, as well a providing food, water and shelter to the millions of Syrians who have been displaced inside Syria and in the refugee camps in neighbouring Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Jordan – we have the misconception that the Middle East is always warm but in the winter, it can be bitterly cold – especially if you’re living in a tent, as many refugees and displaced people are in the region. 
Last winter dozens of families who were displaced by the fighting in Idlib last winter froze to death as they had to flee their homes and sleep in fields.
170 miles is a significant distance for Charles as it is a distance many of the Syrians in the refugee camps in Lebanon, where I’ve worked a lot, had to walk on foot from their homes in Aleppo, across the anti-Lebanon mountain range, and into Arsal in Lebanon.
So far Charles has raised £1,000, 26% of his £3,800 target.
You can sponsor Charles via : fundraising page https://www.justgiving.com/fundr…/lebanontosyriainhighpeak