Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential for sustainable development.
Before the pandemic, great progress was made in improving the health of millions of people, such as increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common causes of death associated with infant and maternal mortality. However, further efforts are needed to completely eradicate a wide range of diseases and address a large number of health problems.
Cultifort has participated in the great "Reto Esperanza: 12 marathons for a great cause" organized by Carlos Siscar Bay, a physical education teacher, popular runner, and lover of popular athletics and marathons, with 72 finishes.
Carlos started running in 1994. Since then, he has competed in the 10km, 21km, half marathon, and marathon distances throughout the Valencian Community, in other Spanish cities, and abroad, such as Paris, Berlin, Milan, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, and Treviso. He has participated in more than 500 half marathons and around 1000 races between 5km and 10km. He is an amateur runner and a member of two athletics clubs (Fondistas RAPITENCA (Tarragona), where he is vice president and co-founder of the athletics club, and Club Dorsal 19).
She has always participated in races out of love and passion, but in 2019-20, to participate in her favorite race: the marathon, she decided to add a social and charitable cause to celebrate her 25 years in athletics and her 50th birthday.
The challenge was to run twelve marathons in twelve months to raise funds for the Esperanza de Pego Cancer Foundation (Alicante). The 12 marathons were interrupted by the pandemic, but she still ran them from home.
By undertaking this charity sports project, she wanted to transform her great passion for athletics into a charity project: a project based on sacrifice, effort, equality, camaraderie, and teamwork, promoting sport through solidarity, thus helping the Esperanza-Pego Cancer Association.
For Carlos, achieving the challenge wasn't just about completing 12 marathons in 12 months, but also about raising as many donations as possible to help with cancer research and treatment.
At Cultifort, we were thrilled with their initiative and decided to collaborate from the very beginning.
Cultifort is also a sponsor of the Virgen del Carmen Cycling Union of Estepona.
