As a final point ZARA Charity in collaboration with TIGO Tanzania launched the sixth edition of the Ngorongoro Half Marathon

As a final point ZARA Charity in collaboration with TIGO Tanzania launched the sixth edition of the Ngorongoro Half Marathon dubbed the 'Race against Malaria' that took place on April 6, this year in Karatu, Arusha region.
                             OFFICIALS WITH THE RUNNERS AT THE STARTING POINT IN NGORONGORO GATE: From left who are standing with blue t-shirt 1-DC-Mvomero, 2-Hon Minister, 3-P-Bay, Leila Ansell, and the Karatu-DCNgorongoro Marathon was held on 6^th April 2013 in Karatu, Arusha region. The race against malaria took place for the sixth year in a row and was organized and sponsored by Zara Tanzania Adventures, Zara Charity, Tigo Tanzania, Chuchu, African Safari, bougainvillea Safari Lodge, Hans Paul Automechs Limited, and Simba safari. A total of 536 runners participated.The aim of this annual event is to inform the local community about malaria because according to the statistics from FEMA  ​​it was found that malaria is a disease which kills more than 650,000 people a year in Africa.In the Southern Sahara desert 88 million of people live at the risk of getting infected by malaria. It's believed that there are indicators where approximately twenty million people will be infected or suffered from malaria this year.While in Tanzania only about one person dies every minute due to the disease.It is based on these statistics that we as Zara Tanzania Adventure and Zara Charity decided to initiate this race in terms of ngorongoro Run since 2008 to raise funds that will be used to help communities in Karatu and Ngorongoro for prevention, access to treatment and education about this disease and its risk.This is the sixth race since its inception and we are grateful for the success we have gained, whereas last year more than 150 international runners were able to share this with the 200 children running and bringing the total participants to 350.For the money we have raised we managed to do the following: -• Provided  mosquito nets for orphans and karatu Hospital.•Assisted in completing construction in the respective maternity wards including ceiling board   and windows• Also provided integrated education to the community about how to terminate reproduction of mosquitoes and the importance of prevention against malaria, including encouraging the use of mosquito nets. Through these communities we managed to identify and significantly reduce the prevalence of malaria which has decreased greatly.This year's race was more unique as it has involve a corporate challenge organized by Zara Tanzania Adventures and Zara Charity with their sponsors  before the race, like from 2010, Zara Tanzania Adventures created and became sole sponsor of the 'Ngorongoro Run: Kids' Fun Run,' an activity that expanded the impact of the Marathon, not only that but Staff competitions, Local Famous Artist  Participation and a media challenge whereby several bloggers and mainstream journalists competed to win a sponsored trip to visit the Zara Property.                                            KIDS FIVE KM FUN RUN ON THE LINE UP AT MNADANIThe competition was very high in each category due to the big number of competitorsbut in the 21km run  Dickson Marwa a local athlete won the race held on 6^th April 2013 in Ngorongoro, Karatu while in the same run a 74 years old grandfather Mr. Mollel Joram succeeded in finishing in the 21 kilometres Run. IN the other Hand Theophil Karia emerge as the winner in Zara workers competition                             Dickson Marwa a local athlete won the race held on 6^th April 2013 in Ngorongoro, Karatu74 years old grandfather Mr. Mollel Joram succeeded in finishing in the 21 kilometers Run. Here escorted by Loma of Zara ToursElder Mollel having participated in running at various athletic events taking place around the region, was the main attraction for many spectators when he finished the race safely without showing any fatigue. Afterwards he was rewarded 500,000 Tanzanian Shillings by Hon. Lazaro   Nyalandu, guest of honour and Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, as the oldest runner to finish the race. He also received 500,000 TSH from Zara group of companies and a mobile phone with 50,000 Tanzanian shillings air time, from Tigo  the communication company sponsoring the run.

                               Theophil Karia (center)  emerge as the winner in Zara workers competition In the 21km run, Barnabas Elias a renowned Tanzanian Artist  finished the run together with former miss Tanzania, Miss Irene Kiwia who is currently manager of Frontline Porter Novell a PR firm based in Dar es Salaam, which was tasked with giving this year’s marathon a major publicity boost.                                                                          BARNABAS WITH IRENE KIWIAThe race started at the gate of the Ngorongoro   Conservation Area Authority NCAA and ended in Karatu town. Deputy Minister Nyalandu congratulated the organizers of the event for focusing their attention on the fight against malaria."Statistics shows that children aged under five are the main victims of malaria in Africa, through such competitions as these, a community receives becomes aware of the dangers of malaria and the number of deaths can be reduced," said Nyalandu.Nyalandu said it is his pleasure to see companies as Zara Tanzania Adventures working alongside the government to fight malaria and help build a healthy nation.Anthony, president of the Association of Athletics Nation (RT) and DC of Mvomero district, wants companies and organizations to imitate the example of the organizers Zara companies and Tigo to sponsor the race against malaria.
Deputy Minister Nyalandu (Center) Anthony, president of the Association of Athletics Nation (RT) and DC of Mvomero  During their running in the Race.zedyansell@gmail.comleilaansell@hotmail.comwww.zaratours.comwww.zaracharity.comzara1@zaracharity.comzara@zaratours.comngorongoro marathonA total of 300 children from primary and secondary schools participated at the Kids run over 5km. Teresia Samuel and Francis Joseph won for the primary schools and Lillian Paul and John Joseph are the champions of the secondary schools. The champions received each 50,000 Tsh; the second winner won 30,000 Tanzanian shillings. And the runners finishing third got 20,000 Tanzanian shillings each.The children who finished the 5km kids run from fourth to tenth received a medal.
Ms:Leila Ansell, Zara Charity and Ngorongoro Run Coordinator with the winner’s of the Kids Fun Run Said that"Zara Tanzania Adventure and its community organization Zara Charity are ever pleased to be associated with the Ngorongoro Marathon as it presents a great opportunity to raise awareness on causes close to Tanzanians social problems  such as Malaria which affects millions of Tanzanians every year in which 86% are children's ,  Since 2009, Zara Charity with Tigo' in collaboration with other sponsors commitment to the health and well-being of the people of Tanzania and this has been demonstrated through their generous support of this event and we feel proud to continue to be part of this year's run"