Charity
Worldwide runners participating in marathons and other such races use the event to raise funds for a charity in support of a cause close to their heart. According to the race organisers, The Flora London marathon is now the largest annual fund raising event in the world with participants raising over £41.5 million for charity in 2006. In 2007, 78% of all runners raised money.
Runners participating in the Bangalore Ultra too are encouraged to raise pledges for a charity. This can be for a charity or cause that they already support in some form. Or participants can choose to raise pledges for our NGO partner, the Dream A Dream Foundation.
Dream A Dream
Dream A Dream was started in November 1999 by a group of 11 young people. Dream A Dream today is a professionally run, registered not-for-profit trust working with over 500 children coming from vulnerable backgrounds such as children from the streets / slum communities, runaway children, orphans, and HIV+ children among others.
“Empowering children from vulnerable backgrounds by developing life skills and at the same time sensitizing the community through active volunteering, leading to a non-discriminatory society where unique differences are appreciated”, is the vision of Dream A Dream.
Dream A Dream hopes to achieve this by providing sustained life skill development programmes to children through exposure to sports, outdoor camps, creative arts, reading-based programmes, computer training programmes, cinema and theatre among others. Secondly, creating a strong community participation model through volunteer-based programmes leading to empowerment and sensitization about children’s issues among the community. Today, this has developed into a full-fledged programme including over 500 volunteers.
In the registration form, choose the option 'Yes' to the question ‘Do you wish to run for a charity and raise pledges for Dream A Dream?'. If you want to find out more about Dream A Dream and their activities, you can do so by emailing info.dreamadream@gmail.com or speaking to Claire or Vishal at 6534 9980.
Once you elect to raise pledges for Dream A Dream, your contact information will be sent to Abhijeet Mehta, who will then get in touch with you and send you pledge forms, pledge trackers, a note on tips for effective pledge-raising and sample mailers/letters for potential donors. These will help you get in touch with family, friends, colleagues etc and ask them to support you by donating funds for Dream A Dream.
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