For the fourth consecutive year, SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde will be a humanitarian partner of the ING Night Marathon Luxembourg. The 18th edition will be launched on May 31st, 2025 at 7pm at LuxExpo The Box. And as always, the great sporting effort will be accompanied by a formidable solidarity challenge dedicated in 2025, as in 2024, to very vulnerable children from southern Ethiopia.
Each season, thousands of runners of all ages and backgrounds are expected to take part in the famous Marathon in Luxembourg and transform their formidable sporting challenge into generous solidarity. Erich François, the founder and head of Step-by-Step SA, has been committed to linking the multicultural event with significant humanitarian causes since its creation in 2006. Since 2020, a partnership has been established with the Luxembourg NGO SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde, whose international projects are dedicated to the most vulnerable children on the planet.
In the wake of the 2024 edition of the marathon that raised the impressive sum of € 6,000 for a project focused on health and nutrition of pastoral communities in southern Ethiopia, the 2025 race will also be dedicated to this project, which has several components. During a friendly meeting last November at the premises of SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde, its Director, Sophie Glesener, thanked Erich François and all his team for their renewed trust and expressed again her happiness to continue this solid partnership, launched five years ago: “SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde is pleased to see this beautiful action carried on hand in hand with the team of the ING Night Marathon Luxembourg “. And to recall the objective in 2025: “Support our essential work in southern Ethiopia to sustainably improve the health and nutrition of particularly vulnerable children and strengthen the resilience of communities“.
SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde mobilizes for children in southern Ethiopia
The donations generated in the context of the 2025 marathon are intended for children accompanied by SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia and its local partner in the region of Oromia in the south of the country. Started in the summer of 2023, a project focused on health and nutrition is continuing. Currently, it aims to strengthen food security, consolidate livelihoods and diversify the sources of income for 150 households that have suffered in recent years due to extreme drought. The introduction of nutritious crops (moringa trees/vegetables), beekeeping and goat farming are among the measures undertaken in this project which focuses on good nutrition and sustainable agriculture.
In practice
• To create a fundraiser: https://www.givengain.com/event/ing-night-marathon-luxembourg-2025
• To get more information: https://sosve.lu/evenement/partenaire-humanitaire-du-18eme-ing-night-marathon-luxembourg/
Contact
Lisa Forrler • e-mail: lisa.forrler@sosve.lu • tel.: (+352) 490 430 24