By Emilie Hackett, Special to The Record – The InspirAction Foundation will be hosting its 2019 InspirAction Relay on Saturday, June 29, to help raise funds for an education and community development project in Haiti. The relay race’s objective is to cross the 140 kilometres that separate the American border and the town of Richmond. Ten runners will travel all along the Sentiers de l’Estrie trails, which span over the Townships mountains and covering an elevation of nearly 4,000 metres. “We will be running a total of 18 hours,” said Jean-Philippe Marcoux, project leader for the Relay. “It’s our third time doing the Relay challenge, but it’s our first time doing it in the mountains. In 2014, we ran from Montreal to Sherbrooke, and in 2016 we ran from Quebec City to Sherbrooke. We’ll be spending the night in Sutton and waking up at 4 a.m. to start running up until 11 p.m. Only one runner runs at a time, and every runner will run two portions of the relay.” The money raised will go towards the construction of new classrooms in the elementary school that InspirAction helped build in the disadvantaged Savane-Blonde community of Croix-des-Bouquets in Haiti. The project will allow 80 more children from the community to access a quality education, which they did not have before the project began seven years ago. See full story in the Wednesday, June 26 edition of The Record.
Locals running a 140-km relay race for Haitian elementary students
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