Run the Sahara
Unforgettable mentally and physically. I would recommend this journey to anyone as it changes your point of view.
Tomasz Laczny, 2015
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NEXT RACE DATE:
27 FEBRUARY 2019 |
Run the Sahara is Sandblast’s annual fundraising and awareness-raising event. It promotes the Sahara Marathon, an inspiring international running event taking place every February in the Saharawi refugee camps in SW Algeria. You can run (or walk!) a full marathon, a half marathon, 10K or 5K. As the official UK coordinator, Sandblast’s takes the headache out of organising the week-long trip to the Sahara. Along with providing logistical support, we organise a special cultural/ educational programme to enrich your experience during your stay. In return, we ask you to help raise funds for our camp-based projects. Since 2009, close to 100 people have run for Sandblast and helped raised over £80,000. |
Our fundraising goal in 2019 is an ambitious one. But it is for a very good cause. We seek to raise £40,000 to continue and expand Stave House in the Desert in the Saharawi refugee camps. Sandblast will pay for all your trip expenses if you raise at least £3000 in sponsorship donations. This means you could have one of the most amazing experiences of your life for free!
Stave House in the Sahara
This project currently offers music and English classes to children in one primary school in the smallest camp of Boujdour. Two hours classes are given every day, after school, using the innovative Stave House teaching method based on story-telling and hands-on activities, to engage the children and develop their potential. These kinds of creative learning opportunities do not exist in the camps. Since the project began, in 2016, we have seen real progress in the children’s music and language skills and a demand for Stave House to expand. As children in the camps have lots of free time and not many activities to fill that time, the community and local authorities are keen to see this project grow and succeed.
So far more than 50 children have participated in the programme and 3 local Saharawi teachers have been trained in Stave House. Through the project we are supporting the training of local Saharawi teachers to deliver the programme so that these teachers will be able to run the project autonomously in the future. In fact next September 2018, the programme will be entirely run by locally trained staff. Very exciting!
HOWEVER, there’s so much more to be done. In the next two years, we’d like to set up Stave House in the other two primary schools of Boujdour camp and this will require building a dedicated Stave House centre in each primary school, kitting these centres out with all the Stave House and English teaching and learning materials, getting instruments and of course train up 4 to 6 more local Saharawis. By joining Run the Sahara and fundraising for us, you will make a huge difference for us to succeed in our mission.
Download our INFO PACK for more information and how to register for Run the Sahara 2019.
Stave House in the Sahara
This project currently offers music and English classes to children in one primary school in the smallest camp of Boujdour. Two hours classes are given every day, after school, using the innovative Stave House teaching method based on story-telling and hands-on activities, to engage the children and develop their potential. These kinds of creative learning opportunities do not exist in the camps. Since the project began, in 2016, we have seen real progress in the children’s music and language skills and a demand for Stave House to expand. As children in the camps have lots of free time and not many activities to fill that time, the community and local authorities are keen to see this project grow and succeed.
So far more than 50 children have participated in the programme and 3 local Saharawi teachers have been trained in Stave House. Through the project we are supporting the training of local Saharawi teachers to deliver the programme so that these teachers will be able to run the project autonomously in the future. In fact next September 2018, the programme will be entirely run by locally trained staff. Very exciting!
HOWEVER, there’s so much more to be done. In the next two years, we’d like to set up Stave House in the other two primary schools of Boujdour camp and this will require building a dedicated Stave House centre in each primary school, kitting these centres out with all the Stave House and English teaching and learning materials, getting instruments and of course train up 4 to 6 more local Saharawis. By joining Run the Sahara and fundraising for us, you will make a huge difference for us to succeed in our mission.
Download our INFO PACK for more information and how to register for Run the Sahara 2019.
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