One man is embarking on a 100 mile ultramarathon from Rome to Assisi with one goal in mind: to help a community in the land-locked African country of Malawi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EAMONN CLARK According to World Bank, Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world with about 70% of the population living below the poverty line. Eamonn saw this run called The St. Francis 100 as his way of helping people in the country, despite being a self-proclaimed amateur long distance runner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EAMONN CLARK But it has not been all smooth sailing for The St. Francis 100. The preparation has taken about a year and included scouting out roads and trails and training for this exceptional distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EAMONN CLARK Eamonn says The St. Francis 100 might be the first of many events as part of this idea for a new philanthrophy to help others in projects around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to World Bank, Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world with about 70% of the population living below the poverty line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":67898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,212],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D2LulPa9vJA","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67901,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67897\/revisions\/67901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Director of the St. Francis 100<\/strong>
The inaugural 100 mile race is to sponsor a medical clinic in the Diocese of Mzuzu in Malawi, so it's a Catholic medical clinic run by a few sisters from the Clarist congregation. They're from Kerala in India. So we're helping to buy them medicine, your basic medicines: azithromycin, lidocaine, you know things like that, especially one of the things that they're engaged in is neonatal care and delivery of children.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director of the St. Francis 100<\/strong>
It's the start of something larger than just one event. I really want to create sustainbility within this model but also to help sponsor creative entreprenural ventures in the places where we're giving hand-outs because to just give hand-outs is really not enough. Over time, it actually harms and paternalizes. We really want to create businesses with parishes or dioceses where they can have a revenue stream over a long amount of time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director of the St. Francis 100<\/strong>
When I first decided to run from Rome to Assisi, I put it into the internet and only months later that I realized it was mostly along very dangerous roads. So I had to pick and choose how to get there and I'm going through a lot of farm roads, backroads, country roads, unmarked or unnamed roads. So I hope I can navigate. I have a team to help me, but it's going to be a very interesting 24, 26, 28 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n