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Durban - This year’s Comrades Marathon runners will be running green, thanks to Bonitas Medical Fund and Wildlands.
In partnership with longstanding Comrades charity, the Wildlands Conservation Trust, Comrades-sponsor Bonitas will ensure that each runner in the 2011 ultra-marathon leaves behind a living legacy of his or her race.
For every runner who tackles the gruelling 90km run, Bonitas and Wildlands will plant almost two indigenous trees.
From May 25, in the four days before the ultra-marathon, the Comrades Bonitas ReLeaf Campaign will plant 30 000 trees in the deforested area around the Cascades Shopping Centre in Ferncliff, Pietermaritzburg.
“We chose to sponsor this campaign because not only will Bonitas be helping to green our country but will be contributing to improving the lives of disadvantage people in several communities,” says Michael Macamo, General Manager Inland Sales and Acting GM: Marketing for Bonitas.
This is because each indigenous tree that will be planted by ReLeaf has been grown and nurtured by Wildlands’ Sustainable Communities project ‘tree-preneurs’ – vulnerable community members who grow trees in exchange for desperately needed food, clothing, building materials, water tanks, school supplies and fees and other goods.
“In the last two years, our tree-preneurs grew over 350 000 trees for our greening and reforestation projects, worth R1.8millon in goods for battering,” says Wildlands Wild Series manager, Heidi Mocke.
In addition to the Bonitas ReLeaf Campaign, Wildlands has other fingers in the Comrades pie this year. A number of runners will be raising funds for Wildlands’ projects by running in the Trust’s “Run Green Run Proud” T-shirts, and merchandise sales at the Comrades Expo will help ensure a greener future for all South Africans.
In partnership with longstanding Comrades charity, the Wildlands Conservation Trust, Comrades-sponsor Bonitas will ensure that each runner in the 2011 ultra-marathon leaves behind a living legacy of his or her race.
For every runner who tackles the gruelling 90km run, Bonitas and Wildlands will plant almost two indigenous trees.
From May 25, in the four days before the ultra-marathon, the Comrades Bonitas ReLeaf Campaign will plant 30 000 trees in the deforested area around the Cascades Shopping Centre in Ferncliff, Pietermaritzburg.
“We chose to sponsor this campaign because not only will Bonitas be helping to green our country but will be contributing to improving the lives of disadvantage people in several communities,” says Michael Macamo, General Manager Inland Sales and Acting GM: Marketing for Bonitas.
This is because each indigenous tree that will be planted by ReLeaf has been grown and nurtured by Wildlands’ Sustainable Communities project ‘tree-preneurs’ – vulnerable community members who grow trees in exchange for desperately needed food, clothing, building materials, water tanks, school supplies and fees and other goods.
“In the last two years, our tree-preneurs grew over 350 000 trees for our greening and reforestation projects, worth R1.8millon in goods for battering,” says Wildlands Wild Series manager, Heidi Mocke.
In addition to the Bonitas ReLeaf Campaign, Wildlands has other fingers in the Comrades pie this year. A number of runners will be raising funds for Wildlands’ projects by running in the Trust’s “Run Green Run Proud” T-shirts, and merchandise sales at the Comrades Expo will help ensure a greener future for all South Africans.
