On the 22nd of March 2026, run with World Friends and paint the streets of Rome orange at the Run4Rome Relay Marathon!
Running with World Friends means representing the voice of the most vulnerable people in Kenya and Italy and defending their rights today, first and foremost the right to health, to ensure a lasting change tomorrow.
By becoming a World Friends runner for charity, you will be supporting the Women’s Community Health Groups
to promote the health of women from the slums of Nairobi, where World Friends has been operating for 25 years. Here, provide of an invisible strength, women face poverty, insecurity, violence, stigma and lack of opportunities every day, remaining the backbone of their families and communities.
We work alongside them and, thanks to your run, we will be able to offer them safe spaces where heal, learn, grow and become protagonists of their own future. Teenage mothers, single mothers, survivors of gender-based violence, women and girls with disabilities, women in recovery from drug and substance abuse, women facing stigma and exclusion: by running, you are giving them access to new possibilities, guaranteeing support, spaces for sharing, health, tools and new skills to learn a job, rebuild their self-esteem and independence.
As one of World Friends’ Community Health Promoters, Grace has witnessed this transformation firsthand: “I have seen women arrive afraid to speak. Now they stand strong and confident, dreaming of running small businesses together. Their transformation is real.”
Run for them: Your run, their independence!

Federica Vozzi
federica.vozzi@world-friends.org
3929004089