CLECE joins OXFAM Trailwalker race against poverty
- The Oxfam Intermón initiative raises money and seeks to mobilise society for a better world.
- Clece took part in the sporting challenge with its own team to run 100 km in 32 hours.
- Held in both Girona and Madrid, the Oxfam Intermón Trailwalker brought 493 teams to Spain and raised more than €942,000 in donations.
4 August 2014. With the race coming to Madrid for the first time, Clece was delighted to show its solidarity for the Oxfam Trailwalker race, held on 5 July. The Oxfam Intermón NGO raises money and seeks to mobilise society for a better world. The event brought together 129 national and international teams, including one team of six Clece employees.
After several months of training, the Clece team, consisting of four runner and two people providing support, achieved its objective of satisfactorily completing the major sporting challenge of the Oxfam Trailwalker: run 100 kilometres in a maximum of 32 hours. With the hills of Madrid setting the scene, the runners set off from the town of Lozoya and ended in Rascafría, with Clece finish in eighth place, with a time of 17 hours and 22 minutes.
The aim behind the run is to combat poverty and injustice, for which the teams not only take part in sporting terms, but also make donations to collaborate with the NGO in its co-operation projects, awareness raising and humanitarian actions. The Madrid event was preceded by the successful race held in Girona last April, which featured 340 teams. Between the two cities, a total of €942,000 was raised, all of which will go to help almost 400 projects run by the NGO all over the world. Specifically, Oxfam Intermón will devote the money raised in Spain to water projects in Ethiopia, food in Burkina Faso, justice in Nicaragua, land in Dominican Republic, health in South Sudan and education in Indonesia.
The Trailwalker was a military training exercise in Hong Kong. In 1981 it was turned into an event promoted by Oxfam to raise funds. Today it is one of the biggest sporting challenges in the world, with 16 events in 11 countries. In Spain four races have already been held, with 1,133 teams taking part and more than €2.5 million raised.
Clece’s involvement in the race forms part of its social activities, aimed mainly at people from vulnerable social groups. The company actively collaborates with more than 200 associations, foundations and NGOs in pursuit of this commitment.