Dream #90

Dream #90

For the first time in seven years of work, our project decided to get involved in providing some help in Portugal. It's only fair to do this, taking into account that the majority of our donations have origin in Portugal. Year after year, it's our Portuguese community of friends and family that keep this project alive. Thank you so much guys!

We thought it would the best decision to get involved directly with a problem that has been affecting Lisbon for a long time: the homeless people. Due to many reasons (cost of life, addiction, etc), the local authorities estimate a total of 5000 homeless people in 2024, living in the urban area of the city. These people can be found everywhere... train stations, under the bridges, in parks and even in the airport.

So, with the fundraising that was done in Japan in Stage 5 of Project X - 50 Marathons in 50 Days - we decided to give half the funds to Nepal and the other half to help supplying food to the homeless people in the streets of Lisbon.

For that we have chose to work with this association called Comunidade Vida e Paz. They are established in the Portuguese capital and they distribute hundreds of meals on a daily basis. They have a very well organized database, logistics and they know the places to go and how to approach people... It's not an easy job... these are people like you and me, that for some reason had their lives turned upside down.

In the end it was possible to fundraise a total of 7149,09€ that correspond to almost five thousands meals for the homeless community!! We are so proud to get involved like this and we even went to prepare the meals with the volunteer team and distribute them at night. It was a very hard night... Proud in one hand but very sad on the other to see there are people living in such conditions...

Thank you everyone who got involved in the Project 50 Marathons in 50 days. It was very hard to complete the task, but in the end we make a difference in people's lives.