Runners run for a cause

WATERFALL – The club dedicated a whole week to highlighting gender-based violence as well as health issues faced by many.

February 6, 2022

Ofentse Ditlopo 1 minute read

Fat Cats Athletics Club Gauteng team members meet up to run for a cause. Photo: Supplied

The Fat Cats Athletics Club took on a massive week-long campaign run from January 24 in Midrand.

The aim was to revive the spirit of running and raise awareness of the many health problems as well as gender-based violence.

Fat Cats Athletics Club’s Cape Town members go out for a late run in support of the club’s campaign to raise awareness of gender-based violence and health problems. Photo: Supplied

Chairman for Fat Cats AC, Vongani Mashile, said the club’s executive committee used the time to bring the Fat Cats AC family together and get members back into running, in turn, ensuring that they reclaim their status of being the ‘coolest kids’ in running.

“The take up of this challenge proved that our people were missing the streets and the excitement that came with it, this helped us to be more creative in structuring the challenge,” said Mashile.

Fat Cats Athletics Club’s members from different branches go out for a late run in support of the club’s campaign. Photo: Supplied

Mashile said that as Fat Cats AC they would always aim to give meaning to the things they did. That is why it was easy for them to dedicate the last week of their challenge to running for causes that affect the everyday lives of many in one way or the other.

Fat Cats Athletics Club’s Polokwane members go out for a late run in support of the week long campaign to raise awareness on health problems and gender-based violence. Photo: Supplied

For the last week of the challenge, members took to the streets in colours that represented the causes that they were raising awareness on.

Fat Cats Athletics Club’s Midrand members Komegni Noubactep, Channelle Makhele (Center top) Thulani Mbele, and Nyawa Madavha hit the streets in yellow tutus in support of people facing endometriosis. Photo: Supplied

The club focused on the following causes:

Gender-based violence (black)
Endometriosis (yellow)
Cerebral palsy and mental health (green)
All types of cancers (multiple colours).

Mashile said the challenge not only revived running for their members, it also brought them together as a family and helped them forge new relationships with their counterparts in the running fraternity. “We look forward to bringing more excitement to the streets while sparking conversations that will help us effect change in the communities we live in,” concludes Mashile.

Details: Fat Cats Athletics Club www.fatcats.africa

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