Race against hunger

The Race against Hunger will be organized for the 11th year in May, 2008.

Our school and the race
Last year our school decided to participate in this race against the hunger. There were more than 300 participants from our school and other ones from the German School of Bilbao. We collected more than 9000 Euros that were destinated to Burundi.

The race took place during a Wednesday morning and as there were a lot of participants we had to organise two different races by age.
The A.P.A. got from the sponsors some bags with food which were given to the pupils at the end of the race but we wasted a lot of food and kilos of tailing.(A limit when we think about the theme of the race). It’s evident that this year we’ll have to avoid this kind of mistake, sensitising, and we have decided to place this day under the sign of solidarity, of course, but also under the sign of sustainable development.
We are officially registered for the 11th edition and despite the exact date has not been decided yet (may), we already know that it will assemble a higher number of participants than last year.
Our purpose is to reach, this year, more than 15 000 euro and the first contacts have already been taken with the three schools of the Basque country which participate with us in the project: “Eco-parliament of the young” to convince them to participate in this solider purpose.
We have created a pupil commission to define with the teachers and the school direction, the development of this day. And we will ask :
- That this race will be a party.
- To make some stands done by the pupils of 3eme, stands where we will sensitise all the athletes about the hunger in the world, about the right of education for everybody, about the help to the most needed of our city, about the tolerance and about the sustainable development in general.
- To be able to let people know about our engagement and share with the highest number of people our worries about this problem, about poverty in general and climate changes
Some ideas:
To organise a rock concert (“terminal” pupils), to contact with a well-known music band (we’re thinking about Ken Zazpi), to invite our parent to participate, to invite the media to let people know about our engagement, to make personalized T-shirts in art lessons…
Decide if you want to help us in this solidary adventure, making us know by leaving a comment in this blog.

Lucia Guerra, Carlota Sans, Guillermo Arbulu and Guillermo Garcia (3èmeA)