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

The inaugural version Adventist Growth and Reduction Company (ADRA) Run might be held on Sunday, tenth Could 2026 with the primary occasion in Kampala metropolis.

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

The maiden ADRA Run is beneath the theme “Run! Save Her future” focused in the direction of elevating help for the susceptible lady youngster, significantly 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 least Ug.Shs 200,000,000 is required to assist the susceptible kids acquire faculty re-entry and mentorship kits for adolescent moms, dignity kits and reusable pads for school-going women, life expertise and entrepreneurship coaching for susceptible women, protected areas in faculties and well being amenities for psycho-social care.

“The ADRA run is to lift consciousness for the susceptible lady youngster, enhance adolescent well being. This run is rooted in our advocacy marketing campaign. It’s not solely a sports activities occasion, however it’s a manner of turning public consideration into public accountability. To the operating group, each kilometer run issues for the lady youngster.” Acknowledged Elder John Mwanza, Nation Director ADRA Uganda

The kits go for Ug.Shs 35,000 per head and bought on the ADRA head workplaces and completely different areas.

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

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

About ADRA Uganda

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