{"id":7648,"date":"2015-08-12T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/08\/12\/marathon-mission-for-zakri\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:30:51","slug":"marathon-mission-for-zakri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/12\/marathon-mission-for-zakri\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Mission for Zakri"},"content":{"rendered":"
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11-Year-Old Takes on Gruelling 7 Mile Run for Charity <\/h3>\n

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\nAn 11-year-old Birmingham boy has been praised for raising over \u00a3400 pounds for charity \u2013 all through completing his homework. As part of his secondary school homework Zakariya Pasha commenced on a 7 mile run in aid of local charity, Amirah Foundation, an organisation which helps vulnerable women rebuild their lives after being the victim of domestic abuse, poverty and homelessness. It is also an organisation which his mother works for. The cheeky chap was given a number of challenges to complete by the time he started his new school in September which included a charity fundraise, writing up about a museum visit, a personal physical challenge and a newspaper book review. His target for his campaign is \u00a31,000, a feat which he believes he will achieve. <\/p>\n


\nThe Five Ways Grammar School pupil said he felt proud of his achievement. \u201cWell, first of all, it was because my mother works there. It\u2019s charity-funded which means they are not getting any money from the government. It makes me proud that I am giving money to them. It was part of my school homework. I was thinking about doing some cupcakes for everyone but my mom gave me the idea about doing the 7-mile run. At my previous school I had run 6 miles. This one was much more tougher.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nWhen asked whether he would consider taking the challenge again, he said, very adamantly, \u201cNope! I don\u2019t want to go through this pain again. I wish I had done the cupcakes!\u201d <\/p>\n


\nMother Saima Pasha said she was proud he was already thinking about these issues. \u201cI think it\u2019s because I speak about the Amirah Foundation at home a lot and that we\u2019re always relying on funding, but I\u2019m proud that he recognises that these things are important.\u201d

\nAmirah Foundation director, Shaz Manir, said she found it really amazing how someone so young could get involved in the charity and in charity, in general. \u201cThis shows that Amirah Foundation is working because it is all about women and children and their positive future. At this age, to think about domestic violence, I think, Zakariya will make a good husband one day! He\u2019ll go back to school in September and discuss in front of his peers, which means the message is spreading. That\u2019s 30-40 other boys.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nDespite its own struggles with financial hardships and physical pressure with their small team, the Amirah Foundation has faith and passion on their side, faith and passion which have allowed them to continue their work since being established in 2011. Anyone wanting to sponsor Zakariya can do so by searching Zakri’s 7 mile run for Amirah Foundation on JustGiving.com. \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11-Year-Old Takes on Gruelling 7 Mile Run for Charity An 11-year-old Birmingham boy has been praised for raising over \u00a3400 pounds for charity \u2013 all through completing his homework. As part of his secondary school homework Zakariya Pasha commenced on a 7 mile run in aid of local charity, Amirah Foundation, an organisation which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}