More than 300 Zanzibari women, men, girls and boys are expected to participate in the race ZANZI HALF scheduled to take place on February 4th, 2018 in Stone Town in the Isles.
ZANZI HALF is an international standard sporting and cultural event featuring a half marathon of 10 km and 5 km distances to be staged for the first time in the East African archipelago of Zanzibar with ethe view to highlighting women's empowerment and gender equality.
The race is a response to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development with a call out for action in the world, and is organized by the local interfaith women´s program Upendo Means Love and the Danish NGO and running community Right to Movement in collaboration with ZIFF, Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) and Zanzibar Amateur Athletic Association (ZAAA).
Women and girls are at the very heart of the agenda in an acknowledgement that their participation is crucial as a pre-condition for the achievement of sustainable development, says one of the organizer,Ms Lotte Bredholt. The race will bring together women and men from the grass root level united in a movement that will translate into further action, transforming gender norms by challenging existing traditional roles, taboo and break down stereotypes showing women and girls as active agents of change and peace. However, sustainability and equality is only achievable if women and men work together.
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