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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 Aid Company (ADRA) Run can be held on Sunday, tenth Could 2026 with the principle occasion in Kampala metropolis.

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

The maiden ADRA Run is below the theme “Run! Save Her future” focused in the direction of elevating help for the susceptible lady baby, significantly in Agago District, Northern Uganda.

The ADRA Uganda Nation Director Elder John Mwanza addressed the media on the Kampala places of work on Thursday, twenty third April 2026.

Elder Mwanza notified that a minimum of Ug.Shs 200,000,000 is required to assist the susceptible youngsters acquire faculty re-entry and mentorship kits for adolescent moms, dignity kits and reusable pads for school-going ladies, life abilities and entrepreneurship coaching for susceptible ladies, secure areas in faculties and well being services for psycho-social care.

“The ADRA run is to boost consciousness for the susceptible lady baby, 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 baby.” Acknowledged Elder John Mwanza, Nation Director ADRA Uganda

The kits go for Ug.Shs 35,000 per head and bought on the ADRA head places of work and totally different areas.

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

The Downside We Are Fixing
• 25% of ladies aged 15–19 in Uganda have begun childbearing (UNICEF, 2024)
• Almost 1 in 4 ladies 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 ladies turn out to be pregnant yearly in Uganda; fewer than 20% return to formal training

About ADRA Uganda

The Adventist Growth and Aid Company (ADRA) is a worldwide humanitarian organisation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, working in 118+ international locations 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.