Lycée pupils run in International Run Against Hunger
Lycée pupils run in International Run Against Hunger
For the third year running, 600 primary pupils from the French Lycée Charles de Gaulle took part in the International Run Against Hunger on Thursday, 25 May in Kensington Palace Gardens.
The French Ambassador gave the starting signal and the children ran as many laps as they could - some doing as many as 10! They ran their hearts out, fully aware of the importance of the cause they were supporting.
For the sixth consecutive year in the UK, children gathered in different parks around London to help children elsewhere suffering from hunger and malnutrition. This year, around 1,300 pupils from the French Lycée and its sister schools - the Ecole Wix and Ecole André Malraux -, the Ecole Jacques Prévert and the Hellenic College of London took part in this joint effort.
The International Run Against Hunger unites children in many countries. This year, over 80,000 children in Paris, Tunis, Warsaw, Addis Ababa, Berlin, Madrid and London participated in these sponsored fun runs, demonstrating the campaign’s growing success.
The money is raised by every participant being sponsored a small amount for each lap that he/she runs, by family, friends, neighbours, etc., who decide the amount of money they wish to pledge. Each individual amount may well be small, but together they enable the organization to act on a large scale all over the world. Indeed in 2005, the French Lycée in South Kensington raised nearly £31,000 of the total of over £45,000 collected by the Run Against Hunger in Britain.
The Run Against Hunger chimes with the desire of the French Ministry for National Education, Higher Education and Research to see young people educated about development and national solidarity and encouraged to be actively involved in relevant projects.
Action Against Hunger website: www.aahuk.org
