David and Katharine Lowrie recently became the first spouses to run the length of South America together, but they didn’t do it just to set a record. They did it to raise money for three environmental groups, and they used Skype to help spread the word about their undertaking, raising nearly $10,000 in the process, writes Thomas Kohnstamm on Skype’s Play Blog.
“A lot of the charity work we’ve been doing is through using Skype on the ground,” says Katharine Lowrie in a YouTube video shared above. “It’s been invaluable to connect with family and friends and get them interested in the project.”
“It’s really important that people can feel the impact of where their money goes,” says David Lowrie in the video. With Skype, he says, “We’re able to – literally – make a call, connect and spin the camera around and people can see exactly where their pounds and pence, dollars and cents [are going],” all of which “makes a difference on the ground.”
The British couple’s 5000 Mile Project, which took more than 15 months to complete, was “an epic, unsupported run from the bottom of Chile to the top of Venezuela (with a few tough patches like the Andes and the Amazon in between),” writes Kohnstamm.
To read more about the Lowries’ adventure – which covered more than 6,500 miles – head over to Skype’s Play Blog.
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