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Running with Refugees
About the event
I am challenging everyone to start 2017 with a marathon and stand in solidarity with refugees around the world.
You'll have the month of January to complete your 26.2 miles, however you like, wherever you like around the world. Simply register and pay a donation fee of £26.20 (all of which minus administration fees will go to support the UN refugee agency - UNHCR).
Run, log and share your experience through the Etchrock platform and, at the end of the month, you will receive our bespoke Running with Refugees medal.
Run, walk or crawl your way around 26.2 miles, and show your support for people making epic journeys around the world. As Syria’s war continues to rage, refugees fleeing the 5-year conflict face greater hurdles to finding safety, while international solidarity with its victims is failing to match and reflect the scale and seriousness of the humanitarian tragedy. By joining this challenge, your donation will allow UNHCR to help refugee children and families receive the life-saving relief and support they desperately need.
You can read more about UNHCR's vital work here... http://www.unhcr.org
All the proceeds will go straight to UNHCR to help refugees and displaced people around the world. Get involved here.
Organiser
Emma Manton
London, United Kingdom
I had no idea that when I agreed to join a friend on a short jog in 2014 that it would start a chain of events that would change my life. I was performing on stage in Stratford-upon-Avon when a colleague convinced me to join her on a two-mile run. I did the two miles but I had to walk twice and I was so ashamed. I thought I had to do something about it...
By 2016, I was ready to try and run the London Marathon. Throughout the previous summer, I had been watching with horror as the media filled with pictures of children's bodies washed up on Greece beaches and, particularly, the now infamous image of 3 year old Aylan Kurdi. I knew it was an issue I could get behind.
I spoke to a few friends in the Theatre world and, before long, my marathon fundraising had spiralled into something much bigger. The Royal National Theatre donated the use of the Lyttelton Theatre, 7 of the best playwrights in the UK wrote and donated material and 36 actors offered their services. UNHCR made one piece, by Jenifer Toksvig, into this amazing film with Cate Blanchett, Peter Capaldi, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson and others.
On February 14th 2016, we staged 'Moving Stories' and raised over £32,000 pounds for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). In April, I ran in London and was bitten with the marathon bug...!