This Friday: Walk, Dance, Run, Skip or Jump for Charity

The Gift of Life Bahrain emblem, a Rotary Club of Adliya initiative to help children with congenital heart defects in Bahrain
Everything is in place now for the RCA Pink Walkathon which will benefit two worthy local charities: the excellent Rotary Club of Adliya – of which I am the current president – and the wonderful Think Pink Bahrain. Net funds raised will be equally shared between both charities. Funds donated to Think Pink will go toward the financing of a specialised machine to detect breast cancer especially in younger ladies while those for the Rotary Club of Adliya will go toward our program to benefit Children with Congenital Heart Diseases by purchasing necessary diagnostic equipment for the Salmania Medical Complex, the largest public hospital on the island.

So please do spread the word and come with your friends and family. It’s two hours of doing good that will help countless needy people and their families. Your generosity will not be missed and you will have had the required exercise for the day too!

There is more information on the Walkathon‘s microsite, but briefly the walk will be quite unique: we’ll be starting from Al-Ghous Corniche in Muharraq, walk onto the old Sh. Hamad Bridge through to the Diplomat Intersection then onto the new Sh. Isa Bridge then walk back to the starting point at the park again.

The American Mission Hospital will provide an ambulance and medical staff throughout the day, the RCSI will provide 41 marshals, Rotaract Club of Manama & Salmania will help too with 12 marshals, the Muharraq Governate have been an excellent help right from the start and will provide the Community Police, the Ministry of Interior will provide a police car to regulate the flow and ensure the safety of the participants and will also provide a motorcycle outrider, Manhal Water will provide free water for all participants by placing five watering stations along the route and of course the Muharraq Municipality allowed us to use the Al-Ghous Corniche for the event which is very generous of them indeed. There are so many I would like to thank for working so hard at making this event happen. I’m sure that it will go without a hitch because of these excellent companies, volunteers and government organisations.

So please do come. We’ll start the registration at 1.30 PM and start the walk at 3.00 PM sharp!

Comments

  1. Ilse

    I did it and it was great – such a good cause. A pity there weren’t more people…..(nice bumping into you after following your blog from Australia!)

    1. mahmood

      The pleasure was mine Ilse. Thanks for participating. It was a great event and for a first time ever, I think it exceeded most people’s expectations. I’m fairly certain that next year’s will be even better and bigger.

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