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RACE CHARITIES

Supporting
WORTHY Causes
The Comrades Marathon is extremely proud to be able
to give back to those less fortunate, or to worthy causes
in need of support, through its Amabeadibeadi Charity
Drive, which supports six official race charities.

The 2016 Comrades Marathon once again has six official charities as its beneficiaries, and runners could make a donation to one or more of these charities
as part of their entry, while both runners and race supporters can further support these charities through the purchase of Amabeadibeadi beads and other
products at the Expo. The Amabeadibeadi project continues to grow with the world’s biggest ultra, so find out a little more about the race charities and get
involved to make your 2016 Comrades run a lasting gift!

THE SPORTS TRUST

The Pietermaritzburg and Durban
District Community Chests
are non-profit organisations
committed to raising and
distributing funds and providing
services in a professional and
efficient manner, to organisations engaged in
meeting the welfare, education, health and
income generation needs of their communities.
More info: www.communitychest.org.za

The Sports Trust increases
access and creates opportunities
for all South Africans to
participate in sport through
the provision of kit, equipment
and facilities. The Trust has aligned itself with
the Minister of Sport’s mandate to increase the
participation in school sport and enhancing young
sports stars’ educational achievements.
More info: www.thesportstrust.co.za

PINK DRIVE

WILDLANDS CONSERVATION TRUST

The Pink Drive is
the indispensable
breast cancer Public Benefit Organisation that
powers SA’s first mobile mammography and
education units, reaching all corners of the
country. These units travel to semi-urban and
urban areas enabling various disadvantaged
communities access to examinations as well as
teaching how to do breast self-examinations.
More info: www.pinkdrive.co.za

The Wildlands
Conservation Trust
works on the
philosophical understanding that human wellbeing
is dependent on the environment’s health, and
works at community level to develop the tools that
help strengthen the eco-system. The trust has
developed a network of ‘Green-Preneuers’ across
SA, to protect and restore diverse community ecosystems. More info: www.wildlands.co.za

STARFISH
GREATHEARTS
FOUNDATION

WORLD VISION

The Starfish
Greathearts Foundation is an international charity
that brings hope, life and opportunity to more
than 11,000 children who are orphaned or made
vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. The foundation believes
in making a difference one child at a time, and
is inspired by the incredible resilience of the
children we meet and support. More info:
www.starfishcharity.org/get-involved-sa

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World Vision is a
Christian relief,
development and
advocacy organisation dedicated to working with
children, families and communities to overcome
poverty and injustice. It is dedicated to working
with the world’s most vulnerable people and
serves all, regardless of race, religion, gender and
ethnicity. More info: www.worldvision.co.za

Race4Charity
Race4Charity offers runners an opportunity to
improve their seeding at the start of the race through
raising funds for the six race charities. To do this,
runners need to log on to their entry profile on
www.comrades.com, select to join the
Race4Charity drive and choose one of the six race
charities to run for. They can then create their own
fundraising page and will have until 2 May to raise
at least R5000 to qualify for the special CC seeding
batch. These runners will also receive an exclusive
Race4Charity goodie bag at registration.
Supporters can go online to make a donation
towards a runner’s fundraising attempt – go to
www.comrades.com/charities/race-4-charity,
where you will be redirected to a Comrades entry
list. Next, click on a runner’s charity logo to make an
online donation to their cause.

TOYOTA Amabeadibeadi Win-A-Car
This is a major part of
the annual Comrades
Amabeadibeadi Charity
campaign, with a brand
new Toyota vehicle up for
grabs on Comrades race
day, through a lucky draw
done on race day. To enter, runners and members
of the public can enter the draw for a brand new car
simply by submitting one or more SMS messages
in the months leading up to race day. More info:
www.comrades.com/charities/toyota-win-a-car

An Amabeadibeadi gift will be enclosed in a runner’s race number pack if they make a minimum
donation of R50 to Amabeadibeadi. Please support our charity drive!

Images: Courtesy CMA

COMMUNITY CHEST