V Distance Integration Street Run at the REHMED-EXPO fair under the banner “YES for transplantation”

About 200 participants will take part in the 5th jubilee run; the route will be leading around Targi Kielce lot. On 6th April at 13.00 on the start line there will be handicapped people, those who have undergone transplants, arm in arm with all those who wants to join in fun – regardless their age, sex and physical condition.

Krzysztof Głombowicz will be leading this run yet another time. Krzysztof Głombowicz is a journalist and sports reporter who has cooperated with TVP2 Polish National TV and who has been engaged in the support for the disabled.

When asked what name should be given to this inaugural run of REHMED-EXPO fair Krzysztof Głombowicz said that he had so many positive associations and emotions that it would be difficult to pick up just one slogan. “It may be: Run for health, only with us? Or it may be “If you want to be healthy run with us”. But the slogan “A 15 minute run means much more for health” is also good ....And there is yet another one “Give yourself a chance and run with us” ... – the author, still undecided, quotes his ideas.

Jan Statuch from the Silesia Foundation of Heart Disease Centre has hot the feeling that that the “YES for transplantation” run is the place for him. It has been 8 years since he underwent the heart transplant. And it is another run he and a group of runner who have also undergone transplant operations will be taking part in. “REHMED-EXPO” is the place for us, here we can share our problems with you, we can thank for our SECOND LIFE.

We can also demonstrate that we are “normal people”, we have professional life, work as volunteers, have a healthy lifestyle, achievements in sports. We want to emphasise it by our participation in this mass run, side by side with the disabled, the same way we showed it last year during the Fair. Our quite a modest group composed of 7 “assembly bodies” will set off for the run in the year which is a very exceptional year (45 years since the first successful liver transplant in Poland) under the banner of YES FOR TRANSPLANTOLOGY.

All the runners will be given small prizes from our sponsors – this is the run where everybody is a winner, and the place at the finish line does not really matter.