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Occasion: 1st ADRA Run
Date: Sunday, tenth Could 2026
Begin & End Foremost Venue: Naalya, Metroplex Mall – Kampala
Different Venues: Kitgum, Rwamanja, Kyaka, Kotido and Yumbe
Classes: 5KM & 10KM, 2KM (Youngsters’s Enjoyable Run)
Equipment charges: 35,000/= per individual
Theme: Run! Save HER future

The inaugural version Adventist Improvement and Aid Company (ADRA) Run will likely be held on Sunday, tenth Could 2026 with the principle occasion in Kampala metropolis.

The run may even happen throughout numerous places across the nation in Kitgum, Rwamanja, Kyaka, Kotido and Yumbe.

The maiden ADRA Run is underneath the theme “Run! Save Her future” focused in direction of elevating help for the weak lady little one, 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 at the very least Ug.Shs 200,000,000 is required to assist the weak youngsters achieve college re-entry and mentorship kits for adolescent moms, dignity kits and reusable pads for school-going women, life abilities and entrepreneurship coaching for weak women, protected areas in colleges and well being amenities for psycho-social care.

“The ADRA run is to lift consciousness for the weak lady little one, enhance adolescent well being. This run is rooted in our advocacy marketing campaign. It isn’t solely a sports activities occasion, however it’s a approach of turning public consideration into public accountability. To the working group, each kilometer run issues for the lady little one.” Said Elder John Mwanza, Nation Director ADRA Uganda

The kits go for Ug.Shs 35,000 per head and offered on the ADRA head workplaces and totally different places.

Funds raised will go in direction of re-enrolling out-of-school women in secondary training and distributing menstrual well being kits addressing two of essentially the most crucial limitations to ladies staying at school.
Impression Targets
• 100 out-of-school women re-enrolled and retained in secondary training via college charges, scholastic supplies, and retention help
• 1,000 menstrual well being kits distributed to handle absenteeism and college dropout
• 1,100 women in complete supported via entry to training and menstrual well being

The Downside We Are Fixing
• 25% of ladies aged 15–19 in Uganda have begun childbearing (UNICEF, 2024)
• Almost 1 in 4 women is married earlier than age 18, a key driver of everlasting college dropout
• In Agago District, as much as 28% of registered pregnancies are amongst adolescents — above the nationwide common of 24%
• Over 250,000 women change into pregnant yearly in Uganda; fewer than 20% return to formal training

About ADRA Uganda

The Adventist Improvement and Aid Company (ADRA) is a world humanitarian organisation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, working in 118+ nations with 6,000+ world employees. ADRA Uganda has been registered since 1986 and works throughout all areas of the nation, pushed by the values of Justice, Compassion, and Love.