Pacinthe's Run4Sudan Fundraiser: Education-Emergency Appeal

A few weeks ago my friend Azza sent me the link to this Run4Sudan event organized by @WomenFitSauga and STRONGWMNTO . Their goal was to raise $1,000 for Islamic Relief's Emergency Appeal for Sudan. I registered late, so that goal has already been met. Incredible.

Then I got a message on Instagram. Rahaf is a Sudanese university student in her final year of medical school. She's been displaced to Egypt and is raising funds to be able to continue her education there. She wrote to me with a link to her fundraiser . She shared her certificates and registration and the fees she needs to be able to continue her journey to becoming the generation of doctors that can tend to the country's deep needs. She's now $4550 USD or $6450 CAD away from her goal.

I know the race is under 24 hours at this point, but I remember that this community helped me raise over $10,000 in SIX DAYS for my first 10K in May. These times feel so crushingly impossible to navigate alone, but I've already seen how you all demonstrated that collective action helps catalyze despair into powerful action.

With that: I wanted to post about this much, much sooner. I will admit that, like I know so many of us are, I'm beginning to buckle under the weight of the world. I have almost never been more grateful that I found running. It is perhaps the only thing that helps me calm my nervous system, which is shot. A few runs go I discovered that sometime over the last few runs, I surpassed over 300 runs since I started running in March of 2020. This fundraiser is a celebration of that, too. There is a direct link to how fast I run and how angry I am. Needless to say, in this last stretch especially, the runs are fast, and they're rage- and Dipset Anthem and DMX- fueled. My girls at Hill Run Club have been a central part of my longevity in this thing that I hate so much, but that I love and feel lucky to be able to do.

Please consider donating to this fundraiser. My goal, my dream, would be to get Rahaf's fundraiser to completion. Imagine that. My next level goal or dream is to be able to surpass that, and be able to give to the original designated charity, Islamic Relief, for their emergency appeal in Sudan.

For my last fundraiser, I remember some heavyweight major donations, but I also remember the dozens and dozens and dozens of $3 and $8 and $10 and $20 and $15s and they changed everything. I also remember how FAR and wide you all shared this. That's what made it happen.

THIS IS A WOMEN'S ONLY RACE and it's full up on registration, but day of registration is still available, tomorrow, Sunday at 10am, ahead of the race which is 11am - 1pm at the East side of 2001 Lake Shore Blvd W. Please visit @WomenFitSauga and @STRONGWMNTO

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.