Exciting partnership formed with Comrades Marathon Association

 

Following the successes of the first two years of the Comrades Awareness and Sponsorship Campaign, World Vision South Africa has just received news that it has been chosen as one of the official charities for the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA).

For runners, the Comrades Marathon is one of the ultimate tests of endurance. But each day in South Africa, countless children face an even greater test of endurance: extreme poverty. The hope is to use the unique platform of the Comrades Marathon to raise awareness of the poverty levels in South Africa, and also the need for sponsorships for children in impoverished communities in South Africa.

The campaign affords individuals to form part of World Vision’s endeavors to become part of the solution and participate in physical and fundraising challenges through which they can address issues around poverty and injustice. Members of Team World Vision (TWV) have to combine the challenge of preparing for and running the grueling, 90–kilometer endurance-testing Comrades Marathon with that of raising multiple sponsorships for disadvantaged South African children.

By recruiting sponsorships for South African children through the Comrades Campaign, WVSA and TWV help to bring real, measurable, tangible and lasting change to the immense fight against poverty in South Africa. Each child sponsor also gets to begin a unique relationship with an individual child. These sponsorships will ensure that every child in its community can experience live in all its fullness.