• The councilor Rocío Gil has participated in the presentation of the sports and solidarity event
- The race will take place on Sunday, June 8 with a completely charitable fundraising aimed at research against ADHD, lung cancer, and multiple sclerosis
Valencia, City of Running, celebrates the first edition of the ‘Race for Solidarity’, a new popular sports event in the city, organized by the City Council of València through the Municipal Sports Foundation, in collaboration with the Trinidad Alfonso Foundation.
The aim of this new event is to bring together three races that were previously held individually into one event, as well as to allocate all registrations to research and fight against three diseases: ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), lung cancer, and multiple sclerosis.
The race will take place on June 8 and will feature three charitable entities and causes to which registered runners contribute 100% of the registration fee. During the registration process, participants can choose the charitable entity or cause to which they want to allocate 70% of that fee. The rest is divided equally among the other causes. In this way, solidarity is the common theme of this new running event.
The event offers various distances and modalities so that everyone can participate. There will be two competitive races of 10 and 5 kilometers, as well as two non-competitive walks, 5K and 2K. Children’s races will close this day of sports and solidarity. The event aims to reach 2000 registrations in its first edition.
The start of the 1st Race for Solidarity will be at 8:30 am at Bulevar Sur, with the 5K race, and half an hour later, the 10K. The route, in this first edition, will pass through the Bridge of Solidarity until reaching the district of La Torre, where the TDAH +16 Valencia Association is active, one of the three entities collaborating in this event alongside IIS La Fe and AEACaP, and which, in addition to providing volunteers, will complement the sports and family activities on this day.
The Sports Councilor, Rocío Gil, stated, «We have been working on this race for many months.» We realized that there were many races of this type, whose costs often exceeded the charitable funds raised. In this way, the administration and the Trinidad Alfonso Foundation once again joined forces and decided to push forward with this race. All costs are assumed by these two entities so that the full proceeds go to the charitable entities,» confirmed the councilor.
On the other hand, Juan Miguel Gómez, director of the Trinidad Alfonso Foundation, highlighted «the public-private collaboration, which represents the Valencia City Council and the Trinidad Alfonso Foundation working together to make this race a reality, and also being charitable towards the rest of the city’s running community, as it is better to have a major race with strengthened charitable causes than three small events on the calendar.»
At the presentation event, held at the Petxina Sports and Cultural Complex, representatives of the three charitable causes to which the organization will allocate all funds raised were present. Laura Cubas, a doctor in Neuroscience and member of the Neuroimmunology group at the La FE Health Research Institute (IISlaFe); Mª Elena Podio, president of TDAH+16; and María Ángeles Marín, vice president of AEACaP. All of them highlighted the importance of allocating these funds to research and expressed their gratitude for the opportunity that an event like this represents. Especially in the case of the TDAH +16 Valencia Association, whose headquarters in La Torre suffered severely from the consequences of the storm last October.
Intersport will also collaborate with this event by distributing race numbers at their facilities, as well as providing an additional euro for each registration in the different races that will be part of this Race for Solidarity.
