The Terry Fox Run, an annual event held to raise money for cancer research, will be held in Abu Dhabi on February 8, according to Khaleej Times. The event will begin at 10 in the morning at the Sheraton hotel parking lot, for a 10-kilometer up-and-down stretch along the Corniche.
The organizer of the Run, Geoffery Cudmore told reporters that from the first run held in the UAE up to date, all the money raised had gone to fund research projects at the Al Tawwam Hospital in Al Ain.
“In June last year, the Terry Fox Run Committee presented a check for the new projects at the hospital,” he gladly stated.
Terry Fox, a Canadian national was diagnosed with bone cancer in his right leg in the year 1977. The leg was amputated above his knee and while his stay in the hospital, the suffering of his fellow cancer patients overwhelmed him and he decided to run across Canada in order to raise funds for cancer research. He called his journey “The Marathon of Hope.”
After finishing a distance of 5,665 kilometers through six of the ten provinces in Canada, Terry had to stop running, as the disease had unfortunately spread to his lungs, resulting in his death at the young age of 23.
The Run in the capital, the seventh in the series, is one among over 488 Runs to be held in an estimated 60 countries around the globe this year.
The Terry Fox Run will take place in Dubai on February 15. The starting-point is at Wonder Land. (albawaba.com)
