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International water activist Mina Guli has arrived in Africa for the RUN BLUE campaign
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ater advocate, ultra-marathon runner and businesswoman Mina Guli arrived in Kenya, 11 June, to kick off the African leg of the RUN BLUE Campaign, which will see her completing 200 marathons around the world by March next year.
The purpose of the RUN BLUE campaign is to raise awareness, to demonstrate the urgency of the water problem we are facing and to drive commitments to concrete action on water by governments, companies and organisations across the world in advance of the UN Water Conference in March 2023.
Australian-born Guli is the CEO of Thirst Foundation, a non-profit organisation delivering groundbreaking action to protect the world’s freshwater resources.
The campaign started on 22 March 2022 (World Water Day) in Australia and Guli has just completed the Central Asia stage, where she ran 14 marathons in
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Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (for an overall campaign total of 41). ‘Over the last few weeks I have run past old fishing boats stranded in what are now desert sands of the Aral Sea, through communities and along the Amu Darya River up to its source high in the Pamir Mountains – the Fedchenko Glacier’ said Guli, addressing the UN High Level Meetings held recently in Dushanbe. Along her route she was joined by thousands of people, and met government officials and water
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