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Event: 1st ADRA Run
Date: Sunday, tenth Might 2026
Start & Finish Foremost Venue: Naalya, Metroplex Mall – Kampala
Totally different Venues: Kitgum, Rwamanja, Kyaka, Kotido and Yumbe
Courses: 5KM & 10KM, 2KM (Kids’s Satisfying Run)
Gear fees: 35,000/= per particular person
Theme: Run! Save HER future
The inaugural model Adventist Enchancment and Help Firm (ADRA) Run will probably be held on Sunday, tenth Might 2026 with the precept event in Kampala metropolis.
The run could even occur all through quite a few locations throughout the nation in Kitgum, Rwamanja, Kyaka, Kotido and Yumbe.
The maiden ADRA Run is beneath the theme “Run! Save Her future” targeted in path of elevating assist for the weak girl infant, notably in Agago District, Northern Uganda.
The ADRA Uganda Nation Director Elder John Mwanza addressed the media on the Kampala workplaces on Thursday, twenty third April 2026.
Elder Mwanza notified that on the very least Ug.Shs 200,000,000 is required to help the weak kids obtain school re-entry and mentorship kits for adolescent mothers, dignity kits and reusable pads for school-going girls, life skills and entrepreneurship teaching for weak girls, protected areas in schools and properly being facilities for psycho-social care.
“The ADRA run is to raise consciousness for the weak girl infant, improve adolescent properly being. This run is rooted in our advocacy advertising marketing campaign. It isn’t solely a sports activities actions event, nonetheless it’s a method of turning public consideration into public accountability. To the working group, every kilometer run points for the girl infant.” Stated Elder John Mwanza, Nation Director ADRA Uganda
The kits go for Ug.Shs 35,000 per head and supplied on the ADRA head workplaces and completely totally different locations.
Funds raised will go in path of re-enrolling out-of-school girls in secondary coaching and distributing menstrual properly being kits addressing two of basically essentially the most essential limitations to girls staying in school.
Impression Targets
• 100 out-of-school girls re-enrolled and retained in secondary coaching by way of school fees, scholastic provides, and retention assist
• 1,000 menstrual properly being kits distributed to deal with absenteeism and school dropout
• 1,100 girls in full supported by way of entry to coaching and menstrual properly being
The Draw back We Are Fixing
• 25% of women aged 15–19 in Uganda have begun childbearing (UNICEF, 2024)
• Nearly 1 in 4 girls is married sooner than age 18, a key driver of eternal school dropout
• In Agago District, as a lot as 28% of registered pregnancies are amongst adolescents — above the nationwide widespread of 24%
• Over 250,000 girls become pregnant yearly in Uganda; fewer than 20% return to formal coaching
About ADRA Uganda
The Adventist Enchancment and Help Firm (ADRA) is a world humanitarian organisation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, working in 118+ nations with 6,000+ world workers. ADRA Uganda has been registered since 1986 and works all through all areas of the nation, pushed by the values of Justice, Compassion, and Love.
