Portland, OR 3 or 9 Mile Run (or Walk) -

Portland, OR - Saturday, September 19, 2009

Please join us for the Run for Congo Women – Portland!

Location:
Lower Macleay Park
NW 29th & Upshur
Portland, OR 97210

Date: September 19, 2009
Registration Fee: $30
Registration opens: 7:30am
9-mile run begins at: 8:30am  
3-mile run begins at: 9:00am

Photo Gallery

Please visit this site to view photos from the 2008 Run for Congo Women!

For more information or to get involved in next year's planning, please contact Ariel Cox at arielsherman@comcast.net.

To support a woman in Congo today, please click here!

We invite you to come out and have the experience of knowing that you are literally saving lives with every step you take.

That isn't a maybe. It isn't hypothetical or wishful thinking. I have met these women. I have seen their children. I have heard their stories, laughed with them, experienced the hope and joy in their singing and dancing. Over and over and over they tell me, "We have enough to eat now. I had the money to be treated / to get my child(ren) treated for malaria. My child is alive because of you!"

It's unbelievably powerful to summon your courage and put yourself on the line to ask people to sponsor a woman for a year, knowing it is literally going to save that woman's life and the lives of her children.

-- Lisa Shannon, Uvira, DR Congo. Feb 5, 2007