The LIVE Race will start from St. John’s Episcopal Church and run through the beautiful Dunloggin Neighborhood. Participants can run or walk and strollers are welcome! The Top three runners/walkers (male/female) in all age categories will win a hand-carved medallion from Wamunyu, Kenya and the top male/female overall will win a hand carved medallion and runner gift cards ($100 for first place and $50 for 2nd and 3rd place).
Virtual Runners will be invited to participate anytime between 9:00 am on Saturday, April 1 and 1:00pm on Sunday, April 2. Prizes will be awarded for the top three places overall male/female and the top winner male/female in the 5-11, 11-17, 18-30, 31-50, 51-70, 70+
We also will have prizes for the largest team (perhaps your family, college group, HS group, workplace) and the top overall fundraiser (it could be a team or individual). Any team raising $1,000 will get to choose the spine of a book to be painted on a step of our Library Learning Center. Each member of the largest team will also be awarded with a book placed in the Kenya Connect library. Fundraising teams are a special way to support the 18,000 students and 500 teachers to an empowered education.
Runners can choose between two premiums: a Kenya Connect orange tech shirt or a clear plastic Kenya Connect cinch bag. Participants must register by March 1 in order to be guaranteed a premium.
Registration cost is $35 until March 1. The price will increase on March 1 to $45. Participants 18 and under race cost is $25.