Active Desi - 7.77 Miles For Greater Good - 2024

🏃‍♂️ Race Description

“Active Desi” is a social group initiated in Charlotte NC, whose mission is to focus on fitness, well-being and active lifestyle for people of South Asian origin living abroad. Needless to say, this challenge is open to EVERYONE because our goal is to promote a healthy lifestyle by bringing this event to our entire community.

Under the “Miles For Greater Good” program, we periodically organize events and challenges that are exercise, fitness or wellness related and contribute to the greater good.

📅 About The Race

Our fourth event under the "Miles for Greater Good" series is “7.77 miles for Greater Good.”

• Join us: in this worthy cause to support our “running Warrior” Smita Warrier as she embarks on an epic world race to run - “7 Marathons in 7 continents in 7 days” and raise money to support “SAKHI“ - an organization based in the slums of Mumbai, India.
• More details: at Sakhi for Girls Education.
• Mission: Since 2008, Sakhi has been leading educational classes for slum girls from grades 1-8, focusing on literacy and numeracy skills, and building life skills.
• Support: Let us come together and support our Charlotte Native and the very first woman of Indian descent to undertake this feat!!! GO SMITA GO!!

👟 Participant Details

Adults: (18 yrs and older) SINGLE PARTICIPANT

• Event: RUN + WALK (FOR SINGLE PARTICIPANT ONLY)
• Race Fee: $40

Children: (8 yrs and older) SINGLE PARTICIPANT

• Event: RUN + WALK (FOR SINGLE PARTICIPANT ONLY)
• Race Fee: $25

Registration: Ends on November 9, 2024, at 11:59am EDT.

🏅 What You Will Receive

• Completion Medal: Each participant will receive a completion medal.
• Proceeds: Rest of the proceeds will be contributed to “Miles for Change” to distribute to the charity mentioned.
• Youth Participants: Youth participants will receive 25 voluntary hours for their race participation & promoting awareness: an electronic certificate will be provided.
• Support: Make every mile count towards your wellness and towards a greater good!

❤️ Charities We Are Supporting For 2024

SAKHI: SAKHI’s mission is to create quality learning spaces at the community level for girls in the slums of Mumbai and rural villages of Osmanabad, India.

• Objective: To provide a girls’ learning space, aimed specifically at those living in difficult situations.
• Life Skills: The stable and reliable basic educational capacity provides life skills and learning confidence.
• Struggles: Initially, many girls struggled to read and write, and their early educational experiences were marked by low confidence and motivation.
• More Information: For additional details, please check out Sakhi for Girls Education.

❓ FAQs

• Registration: You can register for this race using the signup button using your Runsignup account.
• Eligibility: Anyone can participate: parents or guardians must ensure youth can participate safely.
• Account Setup: You will need to set up an account with RunSignUp if you don't already have one.
• Contact: You can reach out via FB, Instagram, or email to activedesi.races@gmail.com.