Marrakech Half Marathon

The Marrakech Marathon is considered among the world most prestigious marathons. Runners follow a flat course through the city. The route is a single lap that takes participants along the side of the city’s 12th-century ramparts, through the Menara gardens and on dusty roads lined with palm trees

Try for a new PB, set yourself a fundraising target for Salam charity or simply tackle the course for fun and fitness. Renowned for its enthusiastic crowds and fantastic atmosphere, whatever your race-day goal you can look forward to a truly memorable day.

The cause

Salam Charity is committed to working with vulnerable communities around the world to ensure children and adults are able to have access to quality education and vocational training. Often it is factors such as poverty, gender and location which prevents children from receiving an education. Today, more than 600 million children fail to achieve the minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics. Often it is also a lack of capacity which limits the learning potential of children such as inadequate facilities or shortfall of well-trained teachers.

In 2021, Salam Charity will be working to rehabilitate schools, provide equipment and support schools to deliver quality educational programmes for all children.

By focusing on rural communities which often see the highest levels of gender imbalance in educational attainment and greater risk of children dropping out due to work commitments, we will be working holistically with local partners to ensure children are given the opportunity to gain a valuable education and a way out of the cycle of poverty.