Saturday, 13th of February, 11am: The Sanctuary Runners' Run Through Africa - Final Run

The Sanctuary Runners was established in Cork on January 30th, 2018 focussing on solidarity, friendship and respect amongst asylum seekers, refugees and wider Irish society. The movement uses running and walking to bring people together and by February 2021 has 24-groups across Ireland and over 2,500 Sanctuary Runners – a quarter of those being asylum seekers or refugees. Like Frederick Douglass the movement focuses on the equality of all people.

Staring Monday, February 8th the Sanctuary Runners will undertake their virtual ‘Run Through Africa’ for Douglass Week. Every day that week we’re asking for Sanctuary Runners to run or walk and contribute your KMs to our epic journey. We’ll provide nightly updates on how far along the route your KMs have brought us as we work our way through the continent step-by-step. We’ll be dropping in on countries and cities from where many of our members come from originally. Our hope is that by Sunday, Feb 14th to have reached our destination in North Africa.

On Saturday, Feb 13th we’re asking for an especially active push to get us over the line. To join the Sanctuary Runners’ ‘Run Through Africa’ just drop us an email to info@sanctuaryrunners.ie

Or to find out more visit SanctuaryRunners.ie - #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect