Paris Marathon in aid of refugees in need of wheelchairs

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Dear all,

While watching the Paris Olympics marathon from my unconscious sick mother's hospital room in Ankara, I signed up for the 2025 Paris Marathon. I knew my mother would not be around much longer, and I would need something to help me get through the winter after her passing. She was my world. She passed away 19 days later, on 29 August 2024, ensuring her funeral coincided with one of the biggest celebrations of the secular Republic of Turkey 30 August, as if to remind her staunchly secularist worldview one last time.

Focusing on training for the Paris Marathon has made it easier to deal with the great loss of my mother. During my training runs, I often remember her comments about my endurance races and activities. I recalled that my mother, inspired by my support of the wheelchair assistance runs for the Turkish Spinal Cord Injury Association (TOFD) members in the Istanbul Marathon, 'harassed' her friends and extended family to raise funds to buy an electric wheelchair, as if she knew she would need one someday. When she was diagnosed with a brain tumour in May 2023, she was already in need of a wheelchair.

Inspired by mother, I have decided to run the Paris Marathon in aid of wheelchair users in refugee camps in Turkey, because, let's face it, running 42.2 km/26.2 miles without a good cause is a bit mad! TOFD (Turkish Spinal Cord Injury Association) is overwhelmed with wheelchair requests from the residents of the refugee camps in Turkey.

In memory of my mother, I am running the Paris Marathon in aid of TOFD. They have undertaken to use the donations raised to provide wheelchair(s) to refugees in Turkey. Especially nowadays, with all sorts of foreign aid cuts, your donations will go much further than ever before for those who are in desperate need.

Please donate as much as you can—every little bit helps! Being forced to leave your home due to proxy wars is horrific enough; getting injured, becoming disabled, and needing a wheelchair for the rest of your life is altogether unimaginable to me. Let's try to make life less miserable for those who are in dire straits.

TOFD can’t accept foreign currency donations- we would need to get a special permission to do so. Forex rates at the moment are

$1 = 38TL, £1= 49.73 €1=43.14 TL as at

£100= 4973 TL

$100= 3800 TL

€100= 4313 TL

An electric wheelchair costs approximately 22500TL (apx US $595) at the moment. I would be thrilled if we could have enough to provide two electric wheelchairs to those who are in desperate need!

Thank you a million times in advance for your generosity!

Yegâne

Paris Marathon in aid of refugees in need of wheelchairs