Children Races

More About This Event

Great Ethiopian Run is committed to staging high-quality races for all the Children.
The 2024 Great Ethiopian Children Run took place on 14 November 2024 at the Ethiopian Sport Academy (near Imperial).

The message for the children race was ‘For every child, nutrition.

Go Green Action Plan
ACTION 1: WE WILL MINIMISE CARBON EMISSIONS
We are promoting “3km of walking per day” to get us all to think more about walking in place of making short car journeys.
We encourage participants living in close proximity (3km radius) to the race venue to walk to and back from the race venue on race day.
We are also encouraging our participants to use public transport and shared car transport for arriving at and returning from the race.
We will deploy electric cars to lead the elite race.

ACTION 2: WE WILL RECYCLE WHEREVER POSSIBLE
As in the past year’s race, we have used recyclable (eco-friendly) materials in the production of our race t-shirts & goody bags. We have continued our partnership with PETCO to collect and recycle all plastic bottles and other rubbish consumed and produced on race day.

ACTION 3: WE WILL ENCOURAGE DISPOSAL OF RUBBISH
Rubbish bins will be placed along the race course every 250m.
We’ll also put more portable toilets on race course

ACTION 4: WE WILL USE LESS PLASTIC
This year we are using a lighter water bottle for participants to make it easier for recycling. Our goody bag is also made of a non-plastic material which can be reused for shopping by participants.

ACTION 5: WE WILL USE LESS PAPER
We no longer use paper for registering participants. All registration has been done electronically.

Participants also receive their race magazine electronically in place of printed magazines.
We use more e-posters, e-fliers, e-invites. Re-use scrap papers for internal communication purposes. We put a disclaimer: “think about the environment before you print this email” on all our electronic communications as a reminder to our stakeholders.

ACTION 6: WE WILL WORK TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT ENVIRONMENT
Putting Go Green logo on every promotional material Scheduled (weekly/monthly) posts on social media about environment and GER’s Go Green 5 strands Run social media campaigns to Teach/Train/Encourage people not to throw rubbish in their day to day activities.

We invite all our participants and stakeholders to join us in this campaign and to contribute positively to the sustainability of our environment.