About me

In October 2006 a good friend of mine, Vicky Buchanan was tragically killed in an accident while cycling to work in London.

Macarena and I are among 200 of Vicky's friends and family who will be running the Great North Run on 30th September hoping to raise £226,000 towards Vicky's Water Project. We need your help in achieving this goal - please sponsor us and help create a fitting legacy for Vicky.


While preparing her dissertation in 1999 Vicky worked with ActionAid on a water project providing clean running water to Dalocha in Ethiopia and we have worked with ActionAid to identify a similar Ethiopian venture that Vicky's Water Project could support.

At a cost of £115,000 clean water can be brought to some 10,000 people in Lera and Demala Town and the infrastructure will be laid to reach many more as funds become available. If, as we hope, £226,000 can be raised, the entire project can be completed and the lives of nearly 20,000 human beings will be transformed for the better.

On the day that Vicky was killed she was carrying £10.88 and these were the very first funds paid into Vicky's Water Project. On these foundations it is the intention of Vicky's family, friends and supporters to write a new chapter in her life.


Please sponsor us and help us to achieve something really special and worthwhile, in memory of a truly wonderful young lady.