Charity Teams:

ZOOMA welcomes charity teams to participate in our events, as runners/walkers or volunteers. Email us at info@zoomarun.com for more information about applying to have your charity team participate.

“We know that all women are powerful – and that we have the responsibility to empower one another. ZOOMA is proud to support CARE in its mission to empower women around the world to make positive change in the communities where they live.” Brae Blackley, Executive Director of ZOOMA Women’s Race Series

Click above to check out CARE’s I Am Powerful video

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE’s community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.

At least $3 of your entry fee goes to support CARE and to empower the women CARE serves.

Donate to CARE when you register for a ZOOMA event or by visiting CARE’s website at www.care.org. Fundraise for CARE by joining a CARE training team. Email us at CARE@zoomarun.com for information about how to join or form a CARE team. All members of CARE teams received a discounted entry fee.

CARE has partnered with CBS fitness expert, professional triathlete and best-selling author Eric Harr to launch the I Am Powerful Workout with Eric Harr, a campaign to help Americans achieve their health and fitness goals while taking action to fight poverty by empowering marginalized women around the world. 

The idea behind the I am Powerful Workout is simple: seize the moment and empower yourself with better health as you empower women and families in poor communities around the world to improve their lives.

Set a goal for yourself – whether it’s quitting smoking, losing ten pounds or running your first marathon.

Raise money for CARE simply by exercising. For every hour you work out, Eric Harr will donate $5 to CARE.  Eric's goal is to contribute $1 million to CARE, triggered by your workout hours.  Work out five hours this week, and you will have automatically raised $25 for CARE. Feel good while doing good.
 
Simply click here, or visit www.care.org/workout, to report your workout hours every week or month.  It only takes a few minutes to turn your workout into powerful poverty fighting tool.

Highlands Community Education Project, Cambodia. Teacher Thong Lean Thavy, 23, right, works with the students. This is a pilot project to address the problem of low educational access and attainment of children, especially girls, from highland minority communities in the remote province of Ratanakiri in the northeast of Cambodia. The project aims to provide a sustainable model for the delivery of basic education in remote areas by supporting local communities to establish their own schools with locally selected teachers and developing culturally and linguistically appropriate curriculum for grades 1-3. By the time a child finishes the three years of bilingual education; they will have learned enough Khmer to integrate into the government education system. The project contributes to the MoEYS' (Ministry of Education Youth and Sports) and EFA (Education for All) goals.

South Asia Floods, Aug. 2004. Chawhara, Bangladesh; Just two weeks ago this had been Sharikon's, 10, home, today it is just sand. The water came in the night fast and merciless. Her family and four neighbors lost everything but their lives. Sharikon is mute but her neighbour Abul Dewan and LPS Secretary for the village of Chawhara had helped the family flee to the safety of the CARE built flood shelter. "The children were terrified. Everyone feared they'd be swept away in the rushing torrent," he explained. "Four houses once stood on this homestead and it was only 25 meters from the flood shelter, but today it is nothing." Chawhara sits atop the Char, a huge flood plain of sandbars,where those Bangladeshi's with no land must eek-out a scant and transient living. Seasonal rains wash away homesteads, destroy crops and change the course of mighty rivers.