Silversmith Faces Marathon

I'm Running The Berlin Marathon for Changing Faces

- PLEASE SPONSOR ME -

please contact via email - info@elizabethauriolpeers.com

AM I MAD? Probably, but then I think most silversmiths are, but my love for silver has taken me one step closer to my research and I find myself running the Berlin Marathon FOR CHANGING FACES this coming September.

Imagine being stared at, talked about, pointed at or hearing rude remarks about you every day. Living with a disfigurement or even supporting someone who has a disfigurement can be a distressing and isolating experience.

When people meet someone with a disfigurement they can often feel scared or embarrassed. People tend not to know what to do or say. This can lead to insensitive and hurtful behaviour.

For children this can mean that they are bullied and teased. This in turn leads to behavioural problems, poor academic performance and difficulties in making friends.

Low self-esteem and self-confidence in adults who have disfigurements can lead them to believe that a relationship, a good job, a family, or even simply friendship is out of the question, as they believe ‘there is no future for someone who looks like me.’

All of these people, you and I need to be helped and educated to encourage a positive change in the movement towards facial equality. This is where Changing Faces comes in.

I am running (so you don’t have to) the Berlin Marathon on the 25^th September 2010 their aid.

Please help me to make a difference. Give someone back their hope and help them to learn to live with who they are.

Support the race for facial equality and give what ever you can. It can go a huge way.

Here’s HOW?

£1 sends a self-help booklet to a parent so that they can learn to manage reactions to their child’s appearance

£15 enables a specially trained counsellor to offer emotional support and advice over the telephone.

£70 enables a specially trained counsellor to offer emotional support and advice during a one-to-one counselling session

£100 secures a workshop place for one person to learn life skills to manage social situations and the reactions of others.

£250 enables a school specialist to provide in-school support and training to teachers, families, pupils and support workers.

EMAIL ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT ME. I WILL BE IN TOUCH TO GIVE YOU DETAILS OF HOW. (IE. AN ADDRESS OR BANK DETAILS.)

Thank you xx