Oxfam TowerRun

Event Information

The coronavirus pandemic is affecting everyone globally. This year, Oxfam TowerRun’s theme is ‘Run with positivity. Reach new heights!’ We encourage people in Macau to support us. We are working in more than 60 countries and regions to protect the poorest and most vulnerable from COVID-19 and its impacts.

The Oxfam TowerRun, takes place annually at the Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Centre – the tallest building in the city. It is a fundraising sports event that Oxfam in Macau has organised since 2014, and this year marks the event’s 7th anniversary. Every year, participants take up the challenge of running up 1,298 steps from the ground floor of the tower to the adventure deck on the 61st floor. Oxfam aims to raise funds through this event to support its poverty alleviation work worldwide.

The event includes individual and team relay challenges. Upon raising the minimum donation amount, participants can take part in the individual challenge, or join the team relay through their company or organisation. Not only can participants enjoy this exciting challenge, they can also raise funds to help the poor around the world become more self-reliant and improve their livelihoods.

Run with positivity. Reach new heights.

This year, we have added the Oxfam Virtual Run. You can choose to do the run on different routes at any time and any place, individually or as a family. You can also choose to run, hike, climb stairs, jog, or use a treadmill or other equipment at home. Participate in the Oxfam Virtual Run at your convenience and pace!

If you are a novice runner, you can invite your family members and friends to take up a simple challenge, improve your health, and do your first 2.2 km run. There are 2 categories of Oxfam Virtual Run: individual and family. These categories are suitable for individuals who want to challenge themselves or families that want to take up a simple activity on the weekend. To sign up for the family category, you need a minimum of two people and can add up to six team members!

Villagers in Jangle Karuia village in India walk 2.2 kilometers to the well to fetch water every day

The Oxfam Virtual Run allows participants to experience the hardship of Indian villagers of Jangle Kauria, located in heavily populated Uttar Pradesh, where villagers walk 2.2 kilometers to fetch water every day. The minimum distance for those in the individual category is 4.4 km, which is the total distance villagers need to walk to fetch water. Individuals can also choose to take up a 10 km challenge. 

We encourage parents to bring their children to participate in the challenge together, in this way they can teach them and help them develop empathy, and learn to be grateful and cherish things that are too often taken for granted. 

Villagers in Jangle Kauria in Uttar Pradesh, India, learn to use hand pumps, which can be used to speed up water testing in remote areas and ensure the safety and sanitation of drinking water. (Photo: Oxfam India)

Oxfam has been working closely with local community leaders and groups through various hygiene and health promotion activities, putting forward emergency plans, and allocating work to improve the resilience of the village to prevent the spread of the virus. (Photo: Oxfam India)

Donate $160 for the safety and hygiene kit to a poor family (masks and soaps)

Donate $360 for a drinking water filter to a household to enable them to drink clean and safe drinking water

Donate $1000 for 2 WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Kits to a household (4 buckets with lids, 2 mugs, 2 packs of sanitary pads, masks and soaps
 

Purpose of Donation

Pandemics know no borders, neither should compassion. Only when we support one another, can we beat the threats ahead together.

The current coronavirus pandemic is affecting everyone globally. Oxfam is working around the clock with local partners, ministries of health and key UN agencies in more than 60 countries and regions to protect the poorest and most vulnerable from the coronavirus and its impacts – from slums in India to refugee camps in Bangladesh. We’re delivering public health programmes, meeting acute needs as well as bringing cash assistance to those who are most in need.