Thousands across the world embrace the Global Solidarity Run.
It was a run like no other as thousands of people in 75 countries across the world took part in Saturday’s Global Solidarity Run.
A run to enable people to show solidarity with those who are forcibly displaced and those living in extreme poverty, the Sanctuary Runners’ initiative began on the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands.
Some 15,116 kilometres away in Limerick, Ireland, at the Global Solidarity Run Mission Control, Bettie Perry and her family were guests of honour at the weekend’s launch event on O’Connell street.
Now living in Tipperary Bettie helped recruit family and friends back in the Solomon Islands to take part in the run and explained to the crowds gathered in Limerick why it was so important.
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