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Description
Location: San Leandro Marina Park (south parking lot - see event map below)
14001 Monarch Bay Dr. San Leandro, CA 94577
Update: Online registration is now closed. You can only do a walk-in registration on 9/21/19 before 9:00AM.
Why a Benefit Run/Walk?
Leave Your Footprint across the globe!!!
In Uganda, 65% of students dropout of primary school, in large part because school fees are costly and meals are not provided. 30% of girls dropout due to a lack of hygiene pads. These children often turn to child labor, crime, begging, trafficking, or early pregnancy. Join us for a 5K run/walk to support SOVCA, an organization that provides education to girls, orphans, and vulnerable children and provides jobs for villagers in rural Uganda.
The Deets
Check-in begins at 8:15am and the run begins at 9:00am. Sign up by 8/31/19 to be guaranteed a T-Shirt and refreshments, included in your registration! Families with kids and strollers are welcome, and will start just after the runners. Scroll down to view route details and maps.
How can you can help?
- Sign up to run!
- Share our event through Facebook, or the social media links above.
- Donate through our GoFundMe page, which you can share via social media. Our goal is $20,000. Any amount you donate goes a long way to helping SOVCA.
- Become a fundraising team member: commit to raising $400 within your network and receive a free "Leave Your Footprint" T-shirt. For runners, your registration fee is also waived (the GoFundMe, Facebook event, and template letters make this a cinch). Contact us to become a team member.
Sign up today and help us empower girls, orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda!
ABOUT SOVCA
Sacred Orphan Vulnerable Child Association (SOVCA) is a registered community based organization (CBO) located in the rural village of Kabale district in Southwest Uganda. The organization supports the Sacred Nursery and Primary School, a 300-student school founded in 2015 to meet the growing need for quality education for orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC), especially girls and those with HIV or whose parents have HIV/AIDS. 55% of the students are girls, and 40% are OVCs.
SOVCA is currently the only organization in the area that provides every student with breakfast and lunch, every day, and gives the most vulnerable children (~30%) free education. In addition, they are educating and protecting girls and OVCs against sex trafficking and child labor. The school charges low school fees, so it relies solely on community-based donations and supplemental income through renting gardening space for vegetable farming. It is embedded in the community and has passionate volunteers.
However, the school currently rents small classrooms and has built temporary structures, with no more room to accommodate growing demand. Donations will be used to support capital projects, such as purchasing land or a bus to provide students with transport. These assets can also be used for income generating projects, such as brick-making, gardening, and local transportation, which in turn will help fund future building projects! Our hope is to seed the school so they may grow sustainably.
Check out the video below from SOVCA's founder, John Mucunguzi.
EVENT & ROUTE MAPS
Route Map
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Event Map
Race Contact Info
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Place
REFERENCES
[1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/UGA
[2] https://www.grin.com/document/436080
[3] http://borgenproject.org/ugandas-struggling-universal-primary-education-policy/
Directions
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