A Little About What We are Doing

"Run to Uganda" was the brainchild of Paul Rejda and Jono Becker. The main goal of the Run is to raise funds to build a school for Calo Me Lare, an orphanage built by Project Hope Worldwide (PHW), in Lira, Uganda. This blog was created to track the progress of our little adventure that we have been kicking around for the past year.

As philanthropic as building a school may sound, the original goal was just to run 125 miles along Route 66 from Tulsa to Oklahoma City "for the fun of it." But as discussions became more detailed, it became evident this would be a great way to raise money for PHW, which both of our families have supported for a couple of years.

From there, it took off at a dead sprint! Jono wanted to set a huge goal. When he mentioned wanting to raise some $50,000, Paul was a shocked but immediately jumped at the challenge. To accomplish our monetary objective, we have recruited a few people to help with some of the fundraising logistics. (Each of whom will be gratefully recognized by the time we officially kick off our fundraiser.) We are also recruiting a running team of all skill levels to help promote the fundraiser. 

To get the fundraiser started, we plan to use Tulsa's Route 66 Marathon as a training run and a good place to spread the word to other like-minded runners. From there, the plan is to log our weekly running miles and the miles of the recruited team runners. The goal is to reach 8,225 miles - the distance from Tulsa to Lira, Uganda before we run from Tulsa to Oklahoma City.

With God’s help and a wonderful team of volunteers, we will reach the $50,000 goal by the end of 2013 (assuming Earth still exists after Dec. 21, 2012 -:) ) and Calo Me Lare will be able to build another school to educate their growing number of parent-less children.

Please visit ProjectHopeWorldwide.org to see all the great things being done and consider how you can help the "Run To Uganda" meet our goal. Our page link is here. Please "like" our Facebook page and subscribe to keep up with what we are doing here.