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PHOTOS 2024 Global Solidarity Run for people forcibly displaced launched at Narrative 4 Limerick
2024 Global Solidarity Run – pictured above at the launch at Narrative 4 are the Global Solidarity Run team and friends
2024 Global Solidarity Run was held in 75 different countries and organised by Irish-based charity Sanctuary Runners
The ‘Global Solidarity Run’, which is being held in 75 different countries AND organised by Irish-based charity Sanctuary Runners was launched in Narrative 4 Limerick on Saturday, October 19, 2024.
The Global Solidarity Run is a unique event organised by Sanctuary Runners and supported by Irish Aid, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Ireland Funds.
Its purpose is to allow people across the world to run, jog, walk or (if in a wheelchair) roll any distance, anywhere in solidarity with all those who are forcibly displaced or those living in extreme poverty.
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The event was launched at the UN in Geneva in June and we will have people taking part in our run from 75 countries with Limerick chosen as the worldwide command centre!
Over the weekend, starting on Friday afternoon the Global Solidarity Run team had people in the Narrative 4 office on O’Connell Street capturing images sent in from people across the world and mapping the flow of runners across the world. The run started in the Solomon Islands and finished in French Polynesia.
Present on the day in Limerick was Solomon Islander Bettie Perry, who lives in Co Tipperary and who had family members take part in the first leg of the event.
Betty said, “We are so delighted that the run started in my small country which is so often forgotten,” she said. “Because of climate change and rising sea levels, people are forced to move for safety and so many leave the islands.”
“We are proud to have this opportunity to show solidarity with others across the world who are forced to leave their homes through no fault of their own,” Ms Perry added.
In a statement to those taking part, President Michael D Higgins said the event is an example of “the solidarity which is needed at all levels”.
Also present were CEO Michael Darragh Macauley, Graham Clifford, founder and Head of International Development and members of the Limerick Sanctuary Runners including locals migrants, International protection applicants and refugees.
Pictures: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick
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