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Add to Preferred SourcesUNHCR’s 1 Billion Miles to safety campaign calls on runners, walkers and cyclists to dedicate their miles in solidarity with families uprooted by war and persecution.
More than 20,000 Lost Boys trek hundreds of miles from southern Sudan to Ethiopia in a desperate search for safety after civil war broke out.
One million Kosovars set off on foot across the barbed-wire strewn border to Albania and Macedonia fleeing conflict at home.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya hike for days through the jungle to escape violence in Myanmar and find refuge in Bangladesh.
A keen recreational runner, Kelly has signed up to UNHCR’s 1 Billion Miles to Safety campaign – the UN Refugee Agency’s new global movement to highlight the staggering distance that refugees trek in search of safety each year.
It calls on recreational runners, walkers, cyclists and those using wheelchairs from all over the world to dedicate the miles they cover in solidarity with families around the world uprooted by conflict and persecution.
The initiative is truly global in reach and is open to all.
Original source: UNHCR
Published on 18 January 2019