The Air Force at the side of the Run for SLA – Agrigento Venezia 2023 for the solidarity relay
It concluded in the late afternoon of Tuesday, September 5, with the arrival of the’Military airport of Rome Centocelle, the 9th stage “San Felice Circeo-Rome” of the solidarity relay “Run For SLA – Agricento Venezia 2023”. The runners crossed the finish line set up inside the headquarters of the “Francesco Baracca” military airport in Rome-Centocelle, the first Italian airport and home of the Air Command of the Military Air Force of Rome and of numerous other inter-service and Armed Forces bodies.
On the occasion of a meeting with the press held at the Recreation Center for Employees of the Air Force Defense, the Air Marshal Alberto Biavati, The Commander of the Air Force, on behalf of the Chief of Staff and the entire Armed Forces, congratulated the initiative and emphasized: “The Air Force is by its nature at the service of the community, making solidarity one of its main core values. It was therefore with great pleasure that we opened the doors, not just metaphorically, to the Run For SLA project. Research, sport and participation – he explained – bring together the Run for SLA and the Aeronautica Militare, which has always been dedicated to supporting and supporting the next generation”.
The initiative aims to make people aware, informed and sensitized about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (SLA), a pathology that has serious consequences for both the patients and their families and that today still has no cure. The match was played on August 28 in Agrigento and is scheduled to end on September 13 in Venice., The race has a route with stages in which about 340 runner in a relay.
At the Recreational Club of Employees of the Air Force Defense, on the 6th of September, the “Villaggio Run For SLA”a point of aggregation and information, as well as a means of promoting food and wine culture, where testimonies from personalities involved in various ways in research and social awareness have found a place, including Giovanni Gravili, Professor, President of the association I Nodi d’amore and parliamentary spokesperson on disability issues Leonardo Durante, a professor among the laureates of the Global Teacher Prize, a world award for technologies on disability issues, Edward Von Freymann, representing the Foundation of Gaia Von Freymann victims of the road.
The Run For SLA
Three hundred and forty-four participating athletes, 16 stages and more than 1800 km, 10 Italian regions crossed, 23 involved associations and more than 30 sponsors supporting the initiative. These are just some of the numbers that make the “Run For Sla – Agrigento Venezia 2023”. The donations collected through the event will be donated to IRCCS Research Center of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, the national reference for the study of this disease.
