Running a Marathon for Social Change
Posted by Kaitlin Walter, Fellow
Team Uta is in training! A group of six girls, Sonia Rao, Emma Shapiro, Adele Williams, Maddie Kane, Emily Martin and me, will be running in the Georgia ING Half-Marathon on March 29th to raise funds for the Uta Bakery Social Entrepreneurship project! The team has set the fundraising goal of each raising $10 per mile that we run, and as a group, we have already raised $480! There is still a long ways to go towards finishing all 13 miles fully-funded, so each team member has asked her friends and family to help her reach the finish line.
This has been a really exciting part of fundraising for the project because it has gotten a lot of different people from all around the country involved. The more people that connect with the Bakery Project and take it into their hearts, the better the Project becomes! Part of what I love about SMRC is its commitment to connecting people, uniting them together in a global commitment to helping the world’s neglected populations in the understanding that we as people are only as healthy as those suffering the most from disease, that we are only as successful as those without opportunities for employment or education can be, because we must demand more! We have to understand that we are all in this together, and that helping one village in Africa become financially independent from government relief really does make the entire world a better place to live in for everyone.
