Staff at Granta Park raised £347.65 for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami during a lunch time walk round the science park’s 120 acres of grounds last month.
Participants donated £1 per mile in the event, which was organised by Kim Burgess, Facilities Manager at PPD. Says Kim: “It was a good day and really nice to see everyone out and about walking or running around the park for such a worthy cause. The Granta Park Social Committee wanted to do something to help the relief effort and we are delighted to have raised this amount.”
More than 8,000 people died, thousands were injured and at least 12,000 people are still missing following the earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March. According to the British Red Cross many people are living in evacuation centres as 14,000 homes have been destroyed and around 100,000 are damaged.
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