justtpeachy: Runner Rebels

When it comes to Slavery, There is no "Grey Area'

I stumbled upon a sign-up sheet on Facebook one night, about a charity run that was dedicated to stopping human trafficking. So a group of girls and I gathered together to join this event. What we thought we was simply a running event, in reality was a movement.

An estimated 28 million people today, are trapped in some form of slavery. 93% of them being in asia, 55% of them of the female gender. Slavery is an underground flesh for cash business that is worth the total national income of New Zealand.

How is it that A business that is worth the national income of a whole country, is a business that hardly anyone knows/speaks about? So for the last 3 months, we've been working together with other students like ourselves to help raise awareness and funds about the critical issue of "Modern Slavery".

The end goal was to raise HK$3,660 worth of funds by the day of the race. The funds would be donated to charities that go towards beneficiaries that work with rehabilitating trafficked victims,

Last Saturday, was the day of the "24-HOUR RACE"

Here's a little look into our day!

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We successfully reached our fundraising goal and managed to complete a total of 177 laps. Although our day of fighting is over, for millions of others out there it isn't. Donations are still acceptable at:
JustGiving.com/TheRoos
If it weren't for these girls dedication to the movement, we wouldn't have been able to achieve anything. They were an amazing bunch to work, run & venture with, I couldn't have asked for a better group of gals x
I'd like to thank our 'part-time' photographer; Michael Gilmour, who thankfully took these lovely shots of us earlier on in the day.
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