Active Desi - 7.77 Miles For Greater Good - 2024

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 Warrier" 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 https://sakhiforgirlseducation.org/

Since 2008, Sakhi has been leading educational classes for slum girls from grades 1-8. Their main objective is to focus on literacy and numeracy skills, while also building life skills. The hope is that every slum girl will be able to continue her studies with confidence and receive quality education.

For more details on Smita’s mission and her race, please click on the link below. 

https://runningwarrier.org   - Running Warrier – Running for a Cause

Let us come together and support our Charlotte Native and the very first woman of Indian descent to undertake this feat!!!  GO SMITA GO!!  

Go solo or form a team of up to 2 people and cover 7.77 miles (8 loops of the course at EFIRD Park , Marvin) on Nov 9, 2024!  Recruit your family, friends, neighbors, co-workers to choose the challenge and come together safely to make a change! 

Registration starts on Oct 1 2024, and ends on Nov 10, 2024. 

Make every mile count towards your wellness and towards a greater good!!

For overall wellness, the American Heart Association recommends at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity every day.

In keeping with our mission to MOVE.INSPIRE. DO GOOD, we can ‘do good’ for our own wellness and also do good for society.

“Go Alone or Go Together - Just do good”

PARTICIPANT DETAILS

Adults  (18 yrs and older)
SINGLE PARTICIPANT
EVENT: RUN + WALK (FOR SINGLE PARTICIPANT ONLY)
Race Fee per participant: $40

Children (8 yrs and older)
SINGLE PARTICIPANT
EVENT: RUN + WALK (FOR SINGLE PARTICIPANT ONLY)
Race Fee per participant: $25

Registration: Registration ends November 10, 2024, at 11:59pm EDT. 

Teams
EVENT: RUN + WALK ONLY (TEAM OF 2 PARTICIPANTS) *
Race Fee per participant: $40

Registration: Registration ends November 10, 2024, at 11:59pm EDT. 

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE
Each participant will receive a completion medal.  Rest of the proceeds will be contributed to “Miles for Change” to distribute to the charity mentioned.  

Youth participants will additionally receive 25 voluntary hours for their race participation & promoting awareness via our event page, the mission of the charity supported. An electronic certificate will be provided for each of the youth participant after the end of the race.

CHARITIES WE ARE SUPPORTING FOR 2024

SAKHI

SAKHI’s mission is to create quality learning spaces at the community level, so that every girl in the slums of Mumbai and rural villages of Osmanabad, India, will get an opportunity to continue her education with confidence. SAKHI means a female friend of girls who inspires, guides, and supports other girls for a good cause.

SAKHI’s major objective is to provide a girls’ learning space, aimed specifically at those girls who are living and learning in difficult situations, so that they have an opportunity to receive quality education in a secure environment.

The stable and reliable basic educational capacity of SAKHI’s learning space provides life skills to the girls and allows them to learn with confidence. Initially, these slum and rural area girls were struggling to read and write, their vocabulary level was poor, their confidence and motivation to learn was very low, and therefore they were not able to participate actively in their school’s daily class activities.

For more details, please check out

https://sakhiforgirlseducation.org/

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Our Story

In 2021, we initiated a program called “Miles For Greater Good”  to raise funds and support non-profit health, fitness, and wellness organizations supporting South Asian communities.  In its first three years we planned and contributed funds (more than $14,000) to several non-profit organizations including,

• South Asian Heart Center, California.
• Breast Cancer Hub (BCH), North Carolina.
• Kiran Inc, North Carolina
• Kiran Anjali Project (https://kaproject.org)
• Hand in Hand USA (https://handinhandusa.org)
• Paraguide   https://www.paraguide.org/

FAQs:

I am all pumped up, how do I register for this race?

You can register for this race using the signup button using your Runsignup account

Who can sign up for the race?

Anyone can participate in this event. For participants younger than 18, parents or legal guardian take the accountability for making sure the youth can participate without risks of injury.

Do I need to set up an account to register for this race?

This race has been set up using the RunSignUp registration event. You will need to set up an account with RunSignUp if you don't already have one

Can I register my team on the RunSignUp page?

Yes. You will need to first set up your team's name and then request your team member to sign up under the Team created by you.

How many participants in a team?

Two. Every member in the team will need to register to participate.

How can I get in touch with the organizers?

You can get in touch via FB or Instagram or send an email to activedesi.races@gmail.com and we will try and answer your questions by the next business day or ASAP!

BE SAFE and HAVE FUN!!