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CHARITY PROGRAM RUN4ROME RUNS WITH 15 ASSOCIATIONS

On Sunday 19th March along with Acea Rome Rome The Marathon there is Run4Rome solidary relay. 15 associations joining the solidary system.

THE ASSOCIATIONS – To submit and participate means to support the following realities and their projects, described below: Lorenzo’s Star by Onlus, Sport City Foundation, Airc, Sport Senza Frontiere Onlus, Ey Foundation, Matteo’s World Onlus, Rotary District 2080, Alzheimer Marathon Foundation, Banco Alimentare Roma, Operation Smile Italia Ets Foundation, Telethon ETS Foundation, WWF, Associazione Italiana Progeria Sammy Basso Aps Onlus, Aned e Special Olympics Italia.

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Onlus was born at the end of 2012 at the wish of Lorenzo Fabbri’s parents, suddenly passed away in the night of 29th September of the same year after a fatal arrhythmia, caused by an arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, a pathology unknown to everyone in the family. In fact, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy is a genetic degenerative pathology that has no cure at the moment, that is very often asymptomatic, and it is one of the most common causes of sudden death of youngsters; in Italy, about 4 youngsters every 100000 citizens are affected by it every year. To raise awareness among families on the importance of prevention when talking about heart diseases with a focus on dangerous arrhythmias at young ages, Lorenzo’s Star by Onlus conducts ECG screening campaigns in preschools, elementary and middle schools, in partnership with Baby Jesus Pediatric hospital and Niguarda hospital; until today over 20000 children and teenagers have done an electrocardiograms, free at no cost for families, thanks to the funds allocated by Onlus. Donations are included in this project too: of medical equipment such as electrocardiographs and holters to hospitals; defibrillators to schools. Within the framework of research of a medicinal product that might cure this pathology, stopping the course, Lorenzo’s Star by Onlus funds the experimentation conduced by the Biology Department of University of Padova. info@lastelladilorenzo.org

It is the biggest global organization for Nature conservation, operating in more than 100 countries of the world where, thanks to the support of 5 million people, pursues more than 2000 projects for the protection of biodiversity. In Italy WWF is operating in every region through a network of volunteers, local organizations and Guards who allow to manage over 100 Oasis. WWF Italia will run Tun4Rome solidary relay for Climate and Nature with 25 teams who will wear the Panda shaped logo to focus the attention on urgent need to counteract global warming and protecting nature by building a new harmonic relationship with the Planet, that provides us with the resources that are necessary to life, and to show that climate crisis and biodiversity loss are two sides of a coin. Two crisis that feed each other and that together have an enormous impact on the quality of our lives, on our safety and on the world we are building for the new generations. Read more on wwf.it

We thank you for the kind gesture that you are about to make and for joining us in this campaign to eradicate Polio, for contributing in writing together the world “END”, that is the next one. Uno of the most important projects by Rotary International is the fight against poliomyelitis, supported by PolioPlus project, born in 1985. If over 30 years ago 350 thousands cases were recorded every year in the world, last year only seven new cases were recorded and now poliomyelitis is confined to only two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. For many years now the Rotary District 2080 has pledged in Rome, Lazio and Sardinia to raise funds for vaccination all over the world, participating in various sports events. Support our solidary race! Along with the runners, the relays, the walkers of the 5 km Stracittadina (Fun Run Rome The Marathon), we are happy to have you by our side. Distretto2080maratonaroma2023@gmail.com

It generated from the solidary sport event Alzheimer Marathon, with the aim of establishing and spreading the culture of human rights of people who suffer from dementia, improving their lives and the lives of their families, merging the topics of cure and support and those of prevention and scientific research. Run with Alzheimer Marathon Foundation to dive a voice to over a million people who summer from dementia. segreteria@fondazionemaratonaalzheimer.it

From 1965 fighting with courage against cancer, AIRC Foundation for cancer research supports innovative scientific projects thanks to constant and transparent fund raising, spreads scientific information, promotes the culture of prevention in houses, squares and schools. It can count on 4 million and a half supporters, 20 thousands volunteers and 17 regional committees that guarantee that over 5000 researchers – 62% of which are women and 55% under 40 – have the necessary resources to bring the results from the laboratories to the patients as fast as possible. In 55 years of efforts AIRC have distributed over 1 billion and seven hundreds thousands euros for cancer research funding (the data are updated to 20th January 2022). run4.roma@airc.it

Operation Smile Italia Ets Foundation

It is part of an international Organisation that cures children and adults who were born with facial deformities such as labiopalatoschisis, trains local medical staff, supports research activities on pathologies, provides patients and their families with care thanks to highly specialized staff, thousands of volunteer doctors and students from all over the world, it promotes sensibilization and fund raising initiatives. Moreover, it collaborates with other non profit organizations, with governments and local sanitary systems in order to guarantee every child and person’s right to have access to free, secure and quality cures, anywhere in the world. From 1892, Operation Smile has cured more than 340000patientz all over the world and today it counts on a global network of 6000 volunteer doctors and healthcare professionals, 100 of which are Italian, with the aim of improving quality and access to surgical treatment and multi-disciplinary medical care for patients with facial deformations in low and medium income Countries. prenotazioni@operationsmile.it

Theleton Foundation

One of the main Italian biomedical charities. For over 30 years it has been working every day in order to find new cures against rare genetic diseases and to make them affordable for patients, to diagnose unknown pathologies and to give back a concrete hope for life to those who have to deal with these pathologies, that in 70% of cases affect children in the earliest years of their lives, compromising their chance to have a future. From 1990, Telethon Foundation has invested over 623 million euros in research, funding 2804 projects, involving 1676 researchers and has studied more than 580 diseases. We have achieved unique results, creating Strmvelis and Libmeldy, therapies that cure the children who are affected by ADA_SCID and metachromatic leukodystrophy. 4 extra therapies are today in advanced clinic experimentation. aziende@telethon.it

Sport Senza Frontiere

MATTEO’S WORLD BY ONLUS

This association was born from the will to spread sports paths, everyday life, experiences that allowed Mateo to grow up in a very particular world. Matteo was diving and life champion. Despite the many difficulties he had to bear, he taught everyone what is like to live your life with a smile on your face. So, become solidary champion and submit now! To run for Matteo’s World means to support scholarships for oncologic research, to donate equipment for pediatric oncohaematological departments, to bring the magic of Christmas to the little ones in the oncology wards of Baby Jesus’ pediatric hospital of Rome, to realize the project “Teach me how to smile” for those young patients with language disorders. mmarchetti17@gmail.com

National Emodialized Dialisis and Transplant Association –from 1972 deals with nephropathic people. It has contributed to the improvement of the life of dialyzed and transplanted patients, working in order to guarantee them civic, sanitary and social safeguards. For 20 years our Association has promoted sport as a powerful mean of redemption from illness and of active witness of will to live and health of dialyzed and transplanted patients. ANED SPORT Committee is now a very active section of the Association and includes a wider sport representation, consisting of people who have immediate dialysis or transplant of every organ or tissue. Our sport activity aims to promotion and organ donation as well and to sensibilization of public opinion. Aned Sport organizes every event on a national level that include the participation of Athletes from every part of Italy and who fraternally compete in various discipline in the spirit of friendship. segreteria@aned-onlus.it

The mission of Sport Senza Frontiere is social inclusion of children though sport, who live a social or economic distress. Participating in Run Rome The Marathon to support the summer project Joy: the educational summer project by Sport Senza Frontiere, that includes the residential summer camp (JOY SUMMER CAMP), food education and healthy lifestyles workshops, educative-creative workshops and digital workshops (JOY-LAB), summer sport center (JOY_POINT) and mini camp in the middle of nature (Joy Nature).

With these activities Sport Senza Frontiere Onlus aims to help children to live a peaceful summer, in the spirit of fun, of living together and friendship. These are children who, at the end of school, have no alternatives. To run with Sport Senza Frontiere Onlus means to help children who live a social and economic distress and risk social exclusion. (corripernoi@sportsenzafrontiere.it)

Ey Foundation Onlus

This foundation was instituted in 2012, wanted by the Italian entity of EY network dedicated to professional services of revision and accountability organization, fiscal and legal assistance, transaction and consulting. EY Foundation Onlus is the operating arm of the planning and implementing of Corporate Responsibility programs and projects of EY network in Italy and the planning and realization of projects for social solidarity. The projects are mainly addressed to teenagers who want to achieve professional formation goals, or who are expected to deal with a disease or a home-based aftercare or a difficult situation. The mission: to create a new system of participative relationships in order to open the possibility to new life paths, also for those who do not believe it is possible, to build a sustainable future. Fondazioneeyitalia@it.ey.com

Sport City Foundation

Association born in 2005 that since its foundation looks after the promotion of studies on progeria, from its scientific aspects to the most human aspects connected to patients’ everyday life experiences. It particularly deals with fund raising for research; mediating true scientific information to specialists and Universities, to schools and to the big public; to promote scientific partnerships between researchers, doctors and specialists from different equipes and different countries of the world; supporting families with progeria in whatever involves the choice of a path to follow and dealing with everyday life challenges; being a trustworthy high level interlocutor to whom Italian, European and Foreign Institutions can speak.

It enters for the first time the Charity Program of The Marathon of Rome, with the aim of promoting and supporting the ‘sportivisation’ of Italian cities. The city parks and squares become place for sport, ready to host sports activities that can be attended by the whole community. SportCity Foundation brings free sport into Italian cities on the occasion of SportCity Day and it will form SportCity trainers in every city that will be a hosting location who are able to teach how to play a sport in the urban areas in complete safety and with the best result. Let us improve the ideas for the city where people train every day. presidenza@fondazionesportcity.it

For the first time Special Olympic Italia will participate in Run4Rome charity Marathon, the relay race in world’s most beautiful and suggestive city, involving its athletes, in order to promote the inclusion of the people who suffer from intellectual disabilities. By joining their team you will be definitely provided with effective support and you will realize of the dream of the athletes who were invited in June to World Summer Special Olympic Games in Berlin. You will run to improve society, tearing down every barrier and prejudice towards those who are often marginalised. staffmarketing@specialolympics.it

For over 30 years, Banco Alimentare Roma is a moving point in the fight against food waste and in food recovery to give it to those in need. Thanks to the involvement of Banco, the marathon will be in the name of food waste reductions: every alimentary good that might remain in refreshment points along the path will be retrieved by the loading agencies without any profit, in order to be virtuously used for food assistance of those in need.

An important partnership that shows how even in the most challenging routes towards big achievements we can assure that nobody is ever really left behind. ufficio@bancoalimentareroma.it

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