NIO Vision Marathon 2022 - 7th Edition

NIO Vision Marathon - 7th Edition 

For past Seven years NIO Vision Marathon has been an attempt to raise awareness about Avoidable Blindness. Dr. Aditya Kelkar and Dr. Jai Kelkar of the National Institute of Ophthalmology have been taking the lead in spreading awareness and guiding the NIO Vision Marathon Team to spread awareness about Avoidable Blindness.

 Avoidable blindness can be treated/ prevented by known, cost-effective means, yet nearly 75% of the world’s blind are blind due to Avoidable Blindness. This is mostly because this category of blindness is not given proper attention and many people have not been made aware of this type of blindness yet. Because of this, NIO Vision Marathon is trying to spread awareness about the main causes of avoidable blindness, in order to have the greatest possible impact on vision loss worldwide

More details on www.visionmarathon.com

Date : 16th October 2022

NIO Vision Marathon, Races for 3Km, 5Km, 10Km and Half Marathon. 

Marathons are a great way to motivate employees to take care of their health and to live a long and productive life. Employees that run have far fewer sick days off as compare to non runners. NIO Vision Marathon is an opportunity for the first time runners and also the experienced marathoners.

Venue: Rabindranath Tagore School of Excellence

              Baner- Balewadi Pune. 

All participants get

• T-shirt

• Finisher’s medal

• Timing chip to record their finish time on timing certificate.

• Race day experience of a professionally managed race.

• Breakfast

• Route support water, energy drink, salt

Run with the visually impaired:

This is a special race where the participants hold the hand of the visually impaired runner. This race starts at 9:00 AM after most of other races are done. The idea is that the people who are leaders of various companies and hiring managers will realize that the visually impaired runners are just like normal employees and they can be hired in their company. There are no obligations, this is an educational experience.

This category is by invitation only.

Here is how you can help NIO Vision Marathon and be a part of it

• Educate yourself about the Avoidable blindness.

• Educate your friends and family about Avoidable Blindness.

• If you work somewhere, then you can

o Help put up the posters in your organization

o Help conduct eye check up and education setup in your organization.

o Tell your coworkers about the benefits of running, we can come to your organization to conduct a training session about running.

o Get your CEO to run with the visually impaired student and discover they are perfectly normal and can be employed with the company in future.

• Costs of such programs are huge and can only be covered by sponsors like you.

For any queries Pl reach us at buddy@runbuddies.club

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