The Carrera por la Vida Foundation has crossed the goal of the Race for the cure with the objective accomplished. The most far-reaching digital race on the European continent to fight breast cancer has had more than 2,500 participants in Spain and has raised 23,000 euros in donations, amounts that exceed the previous year’s call.
The Canarian foundation, the only entity that organized the digital race on a national scale, has placed Spain in fourth place in the number of registrations in the ranking of 32 countries summoned and has achieved one of the greatest impacts on social networks and the media.
From different European cities, small groups of participants have flooded the networks of photos and videos walking and running to show their support for patients and families.
“We are very satisfied because we have improved last year’s numbers in a very difficult context, marked by the volcanic emergency on La Palma,” the president of the Carrera por la Vida Foundation, Brigitte Gypen, told this newspaper yesterday, thanking the support received from all over the country and from administrations such as the Cabildo de Tenerife and the municipalities of Arona and Adeje, and expressed his wish that the next edition returns to the streets of the south of Tenerife: “Hopefully this has been the last digital race and in 2022 we can hug, walk, sing and dance in the street again; if so, I am sure that we will break all the records ”.
The pandemic led the Foundation, which has been carrying out its solidarity work for 16 years, to join the Think Pink Europe movement in the last two editions, an initiative that makes it easier for entities to raise funds aimed at improving the quality of life of more than 500,000 women and men who are diagnosed each year in Europe with breast cancer.
