The Race4innocence Continues!
Running across the Sahara desert, biking across Death Valley, running 100 miles… so what’s next?
Swimming, of course. This summer Mike will swim 22 kilometers across the Strait of Gibraltar, from Morocco to Spain.
For Mike, it's just another part of his Race4Innocence to raise awareness of the problems of child pornography on the internet, and to raise enough funds to fight this evil by shutting down 21,280 websites and saving 21,280 children.
Thank you for your support for this cause!
Mike is a board director at Standard Chartered Bank. He is 49 and lives in Singapore with his wife and six – yes, that's SIX - children. As a father, Mike, better than anyone, understands the kind of love and protection his children need. He understands the importance of having a secure environment for his children to learn and grow in safety.
"This is a difficult subject to talk about and even harder to deal with, but our children trust us to provide a haven of protection and love."
"The demand and ease of accessibility to the amount of child pornography today is disturbing. What inspires me to keep going is the fact that, with very little money, we can help locate missing children and save them from evil. The temporary pain and fatigue I experience during the race is a small price to pay to save a child's innocence."
Tan Ying Hsien is Group Head of Legal and Compliance, Consumer Banking at Standard Chartered Bank and is leading the effort at Standard Chartered for the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography that is aiming to eradicate the commercial viability of child pornography on the Internet by 2008.
Ying said, "there is plenty of evil in the world and it is down to each one of us to do something about it. Child pornography is something we can do something about and I am honoured to be part of the race4innocence to raise funds and awareness around the problem."
"Financial institutions can play a lead role in stopping child porn on the Internet from being commercially viable by cutting off the payment at the source so these websites cannot profit from the terrible images that they portray. Doing these six marathons in six months will help me get the message out to other financial institutions so together we can do something about it."
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