Triumphing together at the Comrades
The 2019 Comrades Marathon Amabeadibeadi Official Charity Launch was held last week.
WITH less than two months to go to the 94th Comrades Marathon, the organising body launched its 2019 Amabeadibeadi Charity Drive at Comrades House on Thursday.
The initiative is aimed at fostering wider support for charitable fundraising for the Comrades Marathon Association’s (CMA) six official charities, namely The Community Chest of Pietermaritzburg and Durban, Childhood Cancer Foundation (CHOC), Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust, Hospice Palliative Care of South Africa, Wildlands Conservation Trust and World Vision South Africa.
One of the main fundraising drivers of the Amabeadibeadi Charity initiative is the Toyota Win-a-Car Competition, where a brand new Toyota Corolla Quest will be up for grabs on Comrades Race Day, 9 June. CMA chairperson, Cheryl Winn said, “This is a truly significant contribution to the greater good from South Africa’s largest automotive manufacturer. We are grateful to Toyota for generously backing the CMA’s official charity initiative, thus enabling us to raise more funds to such worthy causes.”
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Runners, supporters and the greater public can purchase raffle tickets from each of the six official charities as well as at the Pietermaritzburg and Durban registration points as of 11 April until noon on race day, 9 June. The cost is R10 per ticket.
Another exciting part of the 2019 Amabeadibeadi campaign is the continuation of the Race4Charity initiative. Via this development, runners have the opportunity to ‘secure’ their spot closer to the front of the Comrades start line and improve their seeding batch, while raising funds for a good cause. Over the years, Comrades runners have raised millions of Rands through this fundraising innovation.
Race4Charity gives individuals the opportunity to not just make a difference, but to get people involved and race collectively for the benefit of charities. Runners can go to the Comrades website www.comrades.com and follow the Race4Charity link. Runners can sign up and choose which of the six Amabeadibeadi charities they would like to support. Clickthrough to https://comrades.com/charities/race-4-charity for more information.
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