Run4Humanity is a high impact non-profit that brings clean and safe water to remote communities in Africa – transforming health, education and economic outcomes.
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We use the sport of ultra-running to raise awareness, with our founder running hundreds of kilometres to visit every community in the program.
Want to help?
Here’s how you can make a difference.
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Corporate
sponsor
Provide funding, goods or services for Run4Humanity’s life-changing projects.
Supporter
Make a donation, or buy Veronique’s book to help provide fresh, safe water.
Events
Hear our founder share her inspirational message at your next conference or corporate meeting.
Over 2 billion people in the world live in areas with little or no access to clean and safe drinking water. Hundreds of thousands die, and women and children collect water instead of going to school or working.
Run4Humanity’s vision is to bring clean water to three million of the world’s most impoverished people.
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We will fulfil that vision through our 5-step water transformation program
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Water installation – our local partner will install water delivery technology in remote communities.
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Ultra-Run – our founder, Veronique Bourbeau, is an elite ultra-runner. She will raise awareness of the project by running thousands of kilometres to visit every community. At each village she will lead a celebration of clean water, and launch the key next steps of the program.
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WASH program – through a local partner, we will deliver a water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) education program to increase understanding of the importance of clean water.
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Change through Arts – getting the full benefits of clean water requires behavioural change. Through a local partner, our program harnesses the communicative power of the arts as the way to drive new attitudes and behaviours. The program is based on the work of Viva Con Agua.
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Economic resilience – Run4Humanity’s projects will deliver long-term benefits – through health, education, women working and by investing in local human capital and creativity with our local partners. We will measure and report on the ongoing impact to ensure we promote economic sustainability and help communities escape the poverty trap.
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Run4Humanity’s transformational projects
Zambia
In Zambia, $5 provides clean water to a vulnerable person for less than a cup of coffee a week. .Multiply that by people in 10 villages and that brings water to 100,000 people community transformation: 33,000 women empowered, 35,000 children supported and 60,000 people in 10,000 households fed.
​Running for Change Zambia is making this vision a reality through an inspiring 2,000-kilometre run inside those communities
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​Empowering Tanzania
One kms at a time, one Drop of water at a Time
•40,000 Lives: Access to clean water
•3+ Communities: Revitalisation
•10,000 families: Food Security
•13,000 Women: Empowered for the future
•17,000 children: Healthy & Thriving
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Join us for an inspiring 1,000+ km run through the heart of these communities
Our sponsors
we are grateful for the support of our amazing partners
