Schoolyard turns into racetrack, students run together in the spirit of healthy living

“Healthy Run” is a sports activity within the framework of the program “Touch, share, give hope 2025” - a project organized by NAPAS, Mastercard and Payoo, aiming to raise health awareness and conduct cancer screening for disadvantaged women in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

With this activity, NAPAS and Mastercard hope to make a practical contribution to the community by sponsoring 20,100 VND for each km run by participants at live events. This contribution will be used to conduct 3 cancer screenings (breast, cervical, ovarian) and free HPV testing at frontline hospitals for 2,010 vulnerable women working in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Kicking off at the Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City in the early morning of October 11, “Run for a Healthy Life” created a bustling atmosphere in the schoolyard as hundreds of students wore the event’s sports shirts and joined in the cultural activities, warm-up, and group photos. Not only a physical race, the event was also an opportunity for first-year students to interact, connect with friends, and spread the message of healthy and active living in the university environment.

Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City is the starting point of the journey "Run for a healthy life".

A week later, on October 18, the program continued its journey at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, attracting more than 1,500 students and lecturers. The campus was filled with music, cheers and bright smiles on the faces of the young athletes.

Hanoi University of Science and Technology students started out full of enthusiasm.

To prepare for this series of events, the three co-organizers NAPAS, Mastercard and Payoo have worked closely with the school from the idea generation stage, site survey to the design of the running route on each university campus. In addition, students from the two schools who participate will have the opportunity to receive many lucky draw prizes from the organizers along with a race kit including a uniform shirt, a running bib and many gifts upon completing the race such as sports hats, water bottles, backpacks, notepads and many other gifts from sponsors such as hand cream, nutritional drinks, shopping and dining vouchers.

Outstanding runners were awarded many meaningful gifts.

Young people, especially students, are not only the force responding but also the leaders of positive living trends in society. With a dynamic, creative spirit and strong connection ability in collective activities and on social networks, students are the most suitable subjects to initiate and spread community activities with humanistic values. Not only an opportunity to exercise, the event "Run for a Healthy Life" is also an opportunity for young people to spread a responsible lifestyle towards themselves and society, ready to spread good values to the community.

“Run for a healthy life” is an opportunity for young people to spread a positive lifestyle.

Nhat Hao, a student at Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City and a volunteer for the program, shared: “Within the first hour since the school announced and opened the registration link, the media department received nearly 200 registrations. That shows the special attraction of the event as well as the interest of students in health and community training activities.”

Students formed a purple bow - the symbol of "Touch, share, give hope 2025" to support the program.

Nguyen Tuan Kien, a student at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, said: “I love sports and always want to spread this positive energy to my peers. When sports are combined with charity goals, I believe that the values it brings will be much higher and more meaningful.”

Agreeing with that view, Kim Chi, a student at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, added: “I came to this event to respond to the free cancer screening activity for disadvantaged women. The exciting atmosphere from the event made me clearly feel the collective strength and the spirit of sharing that the program brings.”

Along with sports activities at universities, “Running for a Healthy Life” also launched an online running challenge on the VietRace365 platform from October 18 to November 16. Throughout the 30 days, this online event will contribute to building exercise habits and inspiring healthy living, connecting sports lovers from all over. For each valid km completed from this online challenge, NAPAS and Mastercard will contribute an additional VND 2,010 to free cancer screening activities for disadvantaged women.

With two successful stops at Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi University of Science and Technology, “Run for a Healthy Life” will continue to expand to other schools. This sports project encourages the community, especially young people, to form and maintain the habit of physical exercise, take care of their mental health and maintain an active lifestyle, love themselves, in addition to spreading the spirit of kindness to the community.

Source: https://znews.vn/san-truong-hoa-duong-dua-sinh-vien-cung-chay-theo-tinh-than-song-khoe-post1596297.html