1,000km health awareness run from Feb 15

A 1,000km health awareness run from Teknaf to Tentulia will be launched from Teknaf on February 15.

The run, with a theme titled “The Great Bangladesh: Run for healthy Bangladesh”, will be held to promote good health and wellbeing for all ages.

AAMS Arefin Siddique, vice chancellor of Dhaka University, inaugurated the event yesterday.

Shamsuzzaman Arafat, an alumnus of Dhaka University and the solo runner of the event, will make an attempt to run the entire distance between Dokkhinpara village of Teknaf and Zero Point of Banglabanda in Panchagarh.

Several other relay runners will take turn every 100km to accompany Arafat. The run is sponsored by NRB Commercial Bank Ltd.