More than 500 participants have participated this year in the 10th edition of the Anantapur Ultramarathon. An event with three race modalities and which aims to unite sport with solidarity. The event, promoted in 2015 by the athlete Juan Manuel Viera and the Vicente Ferrer Foundation, was born as a sporting and solidarity objective in order to improve the living conditions of children in some parts of the world, in vulnerable situations.
The Anantapur Ultramarathon is a solidarity race that is held every January in southern India, coinciding with the anniversary of the arrival of Vicente and Anna Ferrer to the city of Anantapur. This solidarity event brings together hundreds of runners from around the world who year after year travel to the “City of Infinity” to make visible the reality of the families and villages of the region.
The city of Anantapur, located in the Andhra Pradesh region, is where the central campus of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation in India (RDT – Rural Development Trust) is located. This is a rural desert area where water is a scarce commodity but from which future and hope spring today thanks to the work of the Foundation.
With a development model focused on people and the power of action, work is done from the fundamental areas for transformation: housing, education, ecology, health, vulnerable groups, women and people with disabilities. One of the most special moments of the activities carried out within the framework of the Anantapur Ultramarathon is the Community Running Day. A small inclusive race in which each runner runs alongside a boy or girl with a physical disability with a loud and clear message: you can do it too. In this way we help promote equal conditions, rights and opportunities for people with disabilities, a group discriminated in rural India by society and their own families.
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