| Two IUJ Students Completed 100km Charity Run! |
Public Relations
Apr. 20, 2004 |
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| Andreas (left) and Mark (right) before the race |
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The International University of Japan is proud of two of our graduating students: Mr. Andreas Sollund, 2nd-year MBA student from Norway, and Mr. Mark Holley, 2nd-year IRP student from Ireland. On behalf of a charity, they trained for, and attempted the Fuji Five Lake 100km Challenge Marathon on Saturday, April 17. They both finished and in so doing raised over 130,000 yen to donate to a local charity group, "Kaze no Mai wo Mirukai." This association was founded to promote awareness and understanding of leprosy and to air a documentary highlighting the issues and problems faced by leprosy sufferers.
Mark and Andreas did not do this alone. They asked IUJers to sponsor them with small or large donations if they could complete the 100K run within the 14 hour time limit. Sponsors had the option of giving them a bit of money for each kilometer they completed, or a flat sum if they could finish the entire 100km run with all proceeds going to Kaze no Mai wo Mirukai. Sponsorship of between 1 yen a kilometer (total of 100 yen if they could finish), to a flat sum of 25,000 yen were committed by faculty, staff and students before the race.
Monday morning, campus waited for the news of our two marathon heroes. Learning that both had finished successfully, and for such a worthy cause made us proud. The coins and bills came out of wallets in the name of the charity Mark and Andreas ran for. They earned more than 130,000 yen for Kaze no Mai wo Mirukai.
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