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500 walkers participate in Walkim Barcelona

 In Awareness, Events, Health, Mumbai Smiles, Thank You

Nordic Walking is a full body walking-exercise, a sport for both athletes and non athletes, considered to be a very effective form of cross training where walking is enhanced by the use of two special sticks resembling the skiing ones.

Last week, Walkim Barcelona’s second edition of non-competitive race was organised by two entities – IWalk (a specialist in Nordic Walking) and Eurofitness (gym). This friendly race was organised with the aim of promoting health as well as raise funds for the causes of two NGOs, being Fundació Pare Manel, who work in their own city for underprivileged people, and for us – Mumbai Smiles (Sonrisas de Bombay, our sister organisation in Spain).

With two categories of the race (8 km and 16 km), fun activities of “Walker Fair”, live music and surprises of professional clown, Monica Santos on the field, the 500 participants of the race, of all ages – young and old – had a blast through the day. Many of the participants expressed that they understand that the poisonous clutches of poverty has negative consequences globally, ignoring any nation-international border and that is why they support our work and that is why they came forward to participate in this race for a cause.

To make this race possible, there was a lot of hard work and sweat put in by more than 50 volunteers, the team of Sonrisas de Bombay and many other sponsors and collaborators, who brought this event together and we wish to thank them with all our heart. Not to forget the 500 kind and energetic participants, who made this event a huge success with their goodwill, time and energy. Thank you all! We cannot wait for the next edition now!!

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