"It’s just like winning a race" - Moon helps the homeless
Melissa Moon is no ordinary world champion. After twice winning the World Mountain Running trophy she went on to run 1500km across 16 countries in the Blue Planet run, a campaign for safe drinking water in Africa. But she isn’t stopping there…
Having also worked in a soup kitchen for 9 years she has now turned her hand to helping the homeless in her native New Zealand. Moon was last year voted one of the 10 most outstanding persons in the world and is a regular motivational speaker around the world.
Spikesmag.com give us the full story:
Mountain runner Melissa Moon helping the homeless
As a two-time World Mountain Running champion Melissa Moon has reached the pinnacle of her sport but as spikesmag.com discovers, in the second of our four-part series on “athletes who make a difference”, the New Zealand athlete has a very different role helping the homeless in downtown Wellington.
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