Peace Run heads to Tauranga

Tauranga runners, community groups and school children will take part in the Peace Run as it passes through the region on Wednesday on its way to Rotorua.

The run - part of a six-continent effort to promote international friendship, cultural understanding and world peace - was launched in New York in April this year.

The Peace Run torch will make its way through Tauranga next Wednesday.

By the end 2014 it will have been to over 80 countries, with the symbolic torch passing through millions of hands.

In New Zealand a core team of relay runners representing seven nations will visit schools from Auckland to Taupo as people from all walks of life will join to support its purpose.

In schools the Peace Run team works together with teachers to promote harmonious living between people of different cultures, nationalities and beliefs.

Team member Daniel Rubin says: 'This event offers everyone an opportunity to take a small step for global understanding and to feel part of a larger world family.

'We are all torch bearers for harmony in our daily lives – the run brings this understanding to life.”

Tauranga schools to be visited on October 29 include St Mary's Catholic Primary School at 9.30am and Bellevue Primary School at 11am.

At 12pm the runners will meet with the Tauranga intermediate representatives at Fraser Cove, before running up the hill to the school, before visiting Greenpark Primary School at 2pm on the way out of town.

The Peace Run is the largest grassroots run for peace in history. The thirteenth edition of the Peace Run will cover over 3500 kilometres of New Zealand's roads and highways and reach some 60,000 school children nationwide along with athletes, sports personalities, civic and political leaders.

People from all faiths and nationalities have been drawn to participate, which was founded by Sri Chinmoy in 1987.

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