Westerville Sertoma Rudolph Run/Walk

Westerville, OH, USA
09 Dec, 2018 (Sun)

Running

5 km

About the event

The 2018 Westerville Lions Rudolph Run/Walk 5K is a family-encouraged 5K event which kicks off the Westerville Lions Children’s Christmas Parade that starts immediately after the last participant makes the halfway turn. 

This year’s run will equally benefit the following organizations:

Central Ohio Lions Eye Bank: This organization's mission is to work to restore, improve, and preserve sight by connecting eye donors, educating physicians and enhancing eye research through quality eye banking services which includes providing corneas for Corneal Transplants.

Ohio Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation: Formed for the charitable purpose of helping the indigent and financially distressed with costs arising from the care and treatment of disorders and diseases of the eyes and ears. A major project in progress is to purchase, equip and maintain a Mobile Eye Screening Unit for use by Ohio Lions to meet this mission goal.

In addition, this year’s run will include a contest between the local elementary schools.  A cash prize will be issued to the school Parent Organization with the overall best school times for those runners participating on behalf of their schools.

Lions: The World's Largest Service Club Organization

Our 46,000 clubs and 1.4+ million members make us the world's largest service club organization. We're also one of the most effective. Our members do whatever is needed to help their local communities.

Westerville Lions Club

The Westerville Lions Club was founded in 1928 as the community’s first service club. It is comprised of local men and women who individually and jointly volunteer their time to provide service to the Westerville community.  All profits from any Lion event will go toward Lions charitable organizations that will fight the major causes of preventable and reversible blindness.  None of the donated amount or activity profits will go towards the benefits of our members.  Sight supported activities supported by our club include organizations that:

provide free professional glaucoma screenings and make corneal transplants possible each year

establish and support a majority of the world's eye banks, hundreds of clinics, hospitals and eye research centers worldwide

collect millions of pairs of unwanted eyeglasses annually for free distribution to those in need in developing countries

offer screenings, eyeglasses and sports goggles to athletes through the Special Olympics-Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes Program

provide free quality eye care, eyeglasses, Braille-writers, large print texts, white canes and guide dogs for thousands of people each year

In addition to the above, funds will be used for scholarships to senior students in need of financial aid at Westerville’s 3 high schools and other local worthy causes in the community.

Races offered by this event

Open 5K Run/Walk

09 Dec, 2018 (Sun) - 14:00
Running
5 km
Solo
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