Volunteers to Take Part in Pro-Immigration Run

London, United Kingdom, September 04, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Young volunteers working with the Hackney based charity WORLDwrite and its citizen TV channel WORLDbytes are taking part in this year’s Adidas 5k Women’s Challenge in Hyde Park on September 5th. Uniquely they plan to run sporting a pro-immigration message. Hoping to raise some serious sponsorship for their efforts, all the funds they raise will be sent to Ghana to assist partners groups prevented from coming to the UK due to Britain’s stringent visa points system.

Volunteer runner Christina Frimpong said today:
“I'm a 23 year old Hackney resident of Ghanaian descent and I’ll be running with the WORLDwrite team to promote Open Borders because I believe immigration enriches our quality of life everywhere. Some great parts of this city were made by migrants and all our lives are improved by aspirant newcomers with fresh ideas. People who move around the world and refuse to accept their fate or get stuck are an inspiration not a threat and I say the more the merrier.”

Director Ceri Dingle added:
“Our feisty female volunteers deserve support for promoting such an important message. Our motto 'Open up the Borders-The More the Merrier' will be emblazoned on our T shirts and we’re dressing up as ‘Freedom Police’ for the run and handing out passports welcoming all. All the money we raise will support our peers in Ghana, who are classed as criminals if they come to the UK looking for work.”

The WORLDwrite-WORLDbytes team of over 30 women runners can be sponsored directly online through the justgiving page they have set up here.

For details, interviews and photographs contact
Directors Ceri Dingle or Viv Regan on Tel: 0208 985 5435
or email world.write@btconnect.com

Notes to editors

WORLDwrite is a charity based in Hackney with a remit to provide educational projects and programmes that promote international understanding. For WORLDwrite this means recognising that our peers globally are not different from ourselves and should equally enjoy a great life.

The charity runs WORLDbytes –the school of Citizen TV, an alternative online news channel which champions quality citizen reporting and provides free film training to make this possible.

The charity also assists partner groups in Ghana with annual global appeals.

WORLDwrite has an open door policy and encourages all-comers to get involved and recognise there are no limits to what's possible.

For more general information, please visit:
www.worldwrite.org.uk and www.worldbytes.org

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