Kenya Connect 5K: Running/Walking for Education

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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.