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World Run Day Slovakia 2006

Imagine fall in Central Europe. No not the delightful (often imaginary) runs and walks through a riot of red, amber and golden leaves, but a real fall day-howling winds, pelting near freezing rain and the ever looming threat that the weather might just get so much worse. This is November in Bratislava, Slovakia. This is the kind of weather our 65 World Run Day runners and walkers clad in gloves and earmuffs showed up fin, smiling, cheering, shivering and ready to get moving.

Quality School International Bratislava has successfully hosted its second World Run Day. This year our 11-Year-Old class took on the mantle of publicizing World Run Day, speaking about world hunger, requesting sponsors and collecting the donations. Emerson Network Power sponsored our shirts again this year. Due in main part to the efforts of this class, we were able to double our number and our donations. We gathered 22,000 SKK (about $786.00 USD) to aid in ending Child Hunger. The money we raised will help feed 100 hungry children in schools around the world for more than a year!World Run Day has been a great way to showing our concern for others as well!

The 11-Year-Old class would like to thank everyone who participated. We would also like to send special thanks to: Emerson Network Power for their generous donations and support, QSIB for its support, our guests runners from the US Embassy and state department who joined us this year, Mr. Snyder and the middle/high school track team who turned out in force, Mrs. Valeria Laitinen, our clean up runner, Mrs. Jessica Paugh, our timer and Mr. Lake our lead walker. Be sure to look for our article on the World Run Day Website at www.runday.com. Thank you again. We couldn't have done it without everyone's help and support!