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Campaign idea: Jake is taking on the London Marathon

Six months after emergency surgery saved Jake's only seeing eye, he is taking on the London Marathon.

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Jake was born with glaucoma and lost his left eye at fifteen. A double retinal detachment in his remaining eye recently left him completely blind until emergency surgery saved his sight. He is now preparing to run the London Marathon to support the hospital that cared for him.

Where it happens

UK

The charity

https://www.moorfieldseyecharity.org.uk/

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