112 employees will run for a donation of EUR 15 000

This year too, the team of Makedonski Telekom and T-Mobile Macedonia will participate in the Skopje Wizz Air marathon which will take place on the 10th of May 2015. The employees in the companies will run with great motivation in order to complete the race, because for each completed kilometre by the marathon runners 1 000 denars will be donated, and if all marathon runners get to the finish line the children with Down Syndrome will get a donation of 15 000 euros.
The team is comprised of 112 employees in the companies who will run 42, 21 or 5 kilometres.
“A great challenge is ahead of us, because the amount of the donation for the children with Down Syndrome will depend on us. But, at the same time it is a motive plus for us to complete the race. This is no longer an issue of mere personal satisfaction, but it is a humanity challenge - said Aleksandar Cekorov, an employee of Makedonski Telekom who will run 42 kilometres.
Slobodanka Jakimovska Josifovic who is a member of the marathon team added: There is no better feeling than helping someone, and although we are all a little bit positively nervous, we are truly determined to get to the finish line. This year our number is much higher, and the euphoria is even bigger and I am sure that we will get to the finish line and we will not disappoint the children".
Mimoza Petrevska Georgieva from the Down Syndrome Centre thanked for the donation:
“We extend our big gratitude to all marathon runners and to Makedonski Telekom and T-Mobile. The donation will be used for creation of educational materials with much useful information necessary to the families, the people with Down Syndrome and the expert teams who take care of them, which is very important for the quality of life of these people. In support of the marathon runners, some of the children with Down Syndrome will run the 5 kilometre race".
The Down Syndrome Centre is a non-profit organization that was established in 2013 for the purposes of identifying the problems and offering help and support to these people and their families that are often marginalized. The donation will be used for educational materials in the sphere of medicine and psychology, which will help not only the families of the children with Down Syndrome, but also the creation of a positive image of these persons in the public, which should on the long run contribute to the successful incorporation in the society and improvement of their quality of life.

Last year, the team of Makedonski Telekom and T-Mobile run for a donation for the protégés of the Day-care Centre for Persons with Intellectual Disability “Poraka”. The donation in the amount of 11 000 euros was used for renovation and adaptation of the premises of the centre, which enabled many more persons with special needs to use the day-care centre.

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