PIM Social Good

Prague, March 19, 2010: In an effort to raise awareness in the Czech Republic of the need to support charitable causes, Prague International Marathon spol. s r.o. (“PIM“) is proud to announce that amongst its participants and sponsors for this year´s Hervis Prague Half Marathon, are a number of members from charitable and social groups. Participants include the Light for the World Charity (“Svetlo pro svet”), the Ministry of Social Affairs, Charles University with the project “Running with those that can´t”, as well as HELP, a campaign by the European Commission to raise awareness as to the dangers of smoking. Of particular interest is Francis Karanja, the famous blind runner from Kenya, along with his brother James, who will be running for the „Light for the World Charity“ as well as Veronika Hanušová, one of the women participating in the PIM Women´s Challenge who also supports the same charity. There will also be two relay teams running from the Ministry of Social Affairs whose employees have already started a collection amongst themselves to divide between „The Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation“ and the Czech Guide Dog
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In addition, a group of students from the 3rd Faculty of Medicine at the Charles University will push the wheelchairs of 3 disabled children (about 30 students around 1 child) for the charity project, “Running with those that can´t“. Supporting the race will be a campaign from the European Commission entitled HELP, which will have a stand where people can go and have the level of carbon monoxide in their lungs measured and find out how much damage smoking has caused them. This particular campaign is running at all 27 EU member countries.