All set for today’s Digicel Foundation 5K Walk/Run
The second staging of the Digicel Foundation 5K Night Run/Walk takes place today with over a 30 per cent increase in participants from last year.
The race is set to get under way on Ocean Boulevard, at Digicel’s downtown Kingston headquarters beginning at 7:00 pm.
The recently signed Digicel ambassador and paralympian Alphanso Cunningham is among those set to participate in the event, as he will be the honorary starter for the wheelchair category.
Olympian Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will set off the runners, and dancehall artiste Tifa will start the walkers.
Presentation of prizes will follow immediately after the race which will be chip timed, using the Mylaps Bib Tag system.
The funds raised from the Digicel Foundation 5K Night Run/Walk will be donated to 11 special needs entities, including Early Stimulation Plus. The others are NAZ Children’s Centre, Genesis Academy, the STEP Centre, Mustard Seed Communities, Liberty Academy, the Jamaica Association on Intellectual Disabilities, Jamaica Autism Support Association, Jamaica Association for the Blind, Jamaica Association for the Deaf and the Jamaica Downs Syndrome Foundation (JDSF).
