Running Wild By Per Klemm


Sustainability in supporting our customers, our employees, and our environment is a high priority to us. For a couple of years our team has been participating in the Safaricom Marathon to help thousands of Kenyans build a better future.


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ver 1,100 participants took part in this year’s Lewa Marathon at the base of Mount Kenya on June 27. Regarded as one of the toughest


marathons in the world, the Lewa Marathon seeks to use Kenya’s most successful sport, athletics, as a fundraising tool toward conservation efforts in the Lewa conservancy while at the same time funding development projects in Northern range land areas and the rest of Kenya. The participants, drawn from 28 different nations across all continents, underscore


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the magnitude of the annual event now in its 12th year. The numbers were a drastic rise from the 180 participants that ran in the pioneer marathon in 2000, raising KSh 4.2 million, to the 1,100 participants and raising KSh 48.8 million that the 2011 Lewa Marathon has been seeing! So far over KSh200 million have been raised through the Lewa Marathon since inception. These funds have gone into life-changing development initiatives in sectors such as health, education, environment,


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