Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Southern Village Green, Chapel Hill NC
5K
About this race
🏃♂️ THE RACE
Join us in supporting Malawi Children's Initiative for the eighth year by participating in a 5K run or walk.
Create a fundraising page or team to help maximize the impact of your participation by funding the training of Malawian healthcare professionals and the purchase of lifesaving medical equipment for the Pediatrics Department at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Malawi's capital city of Lilongwe.
❤️ THE CHARITY
Malawi Children’s Initiative (MCI) is an all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit organization established in 2017 by physicians David and Elizabeth Fitzgerald to help build bridges between their friends and colleagues at home in the U.S. and those in Malawi, where they have worked and sometimes lived since 2011.
- Focus: Improving the lives of Malawian children through investment in healthcare, education, and nutritional initiatives.
- Funding: MCI has provided more than $1 million in funding, training, staffing and equipment to benefit Malawian children since its founding.
- Projects: Significant projects include funding an elementary school building and providing dozens of scholarships for healthcare education.
- Impact: Contributing thousands of hours of nursing care support to the KCH Pediatric Department and running a Nutritional Rehab Unit at KCH.
🎯 THE GOAL
Raise $50,000 to train new pediatricians, purchase medical equipment, and provide healthcare education aimed at saving and improving the lives of Malawian children, especially those facing severe hunger and malnutrition.
For more information and to register, visit Run for Malawi 2025.
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