Mother, humanitarian and long-distance runner Eloise Wellings is on a mission of Olympic proportions.
After years of injury, the 33-year-old has qualified for her second Olympic Games.
She is hoping her success on the track will mean a brighter future for Ugandan women off it.
Eloise Wellings is in the depths of training for the Olympic Games.
Earlier this month, she was named to Australia's athletics team for Rio.
But these footsteps are not just for her.
They are also for the women of Uganda.
"I start to get a little bit emotional about that. Yeah, I'll just be running along, and the faces just pop into my head, and I just remember, you know, why I do it and why I run."
This is one of the Ugandan women Wellings wants to help through the Love Mercy Foundation.
Wellings helped found the not-for-profit organisation working in the northern parts of the land-locked East African nation.
Love Mercy's new project is called Cents for Seeds, a micro loan farming program empowering Ugandan women.
Wellings explains:
"Thirty dollars will sponsor a woman in Uganda to go through the program. And she receives 30 kilos of seeds. And with those seeds, she goes and grows and harvests those seeds. And out of that, she averages between 150 to 300 kilos of food."
Love Mercy is launching a documentary about the program this week.
Caitlin Barrett is the foundation's chief executive.
She says Wellings is integral to their goal this year of reaching over six thousand women in one of the world's poorest nations.
"I know that, as Eloise's colleague and as her friend, that that's the motivation behind her running career. The reason that she runs is to bring awareness to our projects and our programs, and that's her motivation for training every day and for getting out and leaving it all out on the track."
As the first mother named to this year's Rio Games team, Wellings has a lot on her schedule when combined with her humanitarian work and training schedule.
As a 5,000- and 10,000-metre specialist, she runs the equivalent of about three marathons every week as well.
She says making the London 2012 team was a dream come true.
Now, her approach this time around is - in a word - fearless.
"We're going to definitely be taking more risks that we were in London. London was about having the experience, actually becoming an Olympian finally after so much heartbreak and setback. And Rio is about trying to get the best out of myself and absolutely trying to give an out-of-my-skin* performance. And to do that, we need to take measured risks."
Wellings' aim for the Rio Games is a top eight finish.
It is a lofty goal, she says, even if she is chasing a dream in Uganda greater than any Olympic Games.
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