#running

🇨🇴 Colombia · Instituto Distrital de Recreación y Deporte (IDRD)

Every Sunday and public holiday, Bogotá shuts down more than 138 kilometers of major roads to cars, turning them over to roughly 1.5 million cyclists, runners, walkers and skaters.

🌍 Global · Free to Run

A nonprofit founded by an ultrarunner and human rights lawyer that uses running, hiking and climbing to build confidence, leadership and community for women and girls in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine.

🇦🇺 Australia · Indigenous Marathon Foundation

Every year, twelve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander runners train for six months to complete the New York City Marathon, then return home as certified community health leaders.

🇮🇳 India · Magic Bus India Foundation

Magic Bus uses weekly sports sessions led by young community mentors to keep India's poorest adolescents in school and out of child labour and early marriage.

🌍 Global · parkrun

What began as 13 friends jogging in a London park in 2004 is now a free, timed, volunteer-run 5K held every Saturday morning in more than 20 countries.