Mozambicans will run on Saturday for Peace

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Mozambicans will run on Saturday for Peace

1:46 CAT | 04 Mar 2016

The “Race for Peace” will take place on Saturday, March 5, at 7 pm, in Namaacha, Maputo Province. The five kilometres running competition is open to all levels of both genders and people with disabilities.

This is the fifth in a series of 33 5 kilometre competitions that the Mozambican Athletics Federation has scheduled throughout the country, at a stage where sports and athletics in particular have suffered greatly with the political instability and military skirmishes.

Several regional and national tests had to be cancelled by difficulty in transporting athletes. Several road sections are not 100 percent safe, so these competitions eventually fill some gaps and allow to introduce a strong entertainment and educational component.

“We will take the opportunity this Saturday to pass a strong message of appeal for peace. We have already done it, we will continue to do so. Not only through the athletes who may still enroll, but through respective families. Since it is on a Saturday, it is likely that, as in other initiatives, the families of athletes attend and end up performing spontaneous walks. In addition, the Federation will use this day as all the competitions that follow throughout the country, to have an educational and training action for all, for sports and a healthy lifestyle in defence of peace’ summed up Shafee Sidat, president of the Athletics Federation.

Unofficially, the Mozambican Athletics Federation encourages that throughout the country, spontaneously, and at the same time of Namaacha, Mozambicans run for peace, creating a national wave.

Note that for March 8 is scheduled a race in Vanduzi, Manica Province, and March 12 in Manhiça (Maputo province).

Source: A Bola