Meath's County Footballer Grainne Nulty is getting set to take part in a 9,500 km run to Africa on the first weekend of October to raise funds for the charity, Playing for Life. The novel fundraising concept will see participants in all 32 counties of Ireland located at Tesco stores and other locations run on treadmills and accumulate the 9,500 distance from Dublin to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The goal is to raise EUR100 per kilometre in order to support Playing for Life's projects in Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya. Participants from all clubs in the county have been asked to take part in the run which takes place at Navan Shopping Centre from Friday 3rd until Sunday 5th of October running the distance of 300km. Playing for Life was founded by well-known sportswoman and broadcaster Tracy Piggott following a visit to Ethiopia in 2004. Tracy was determined to do set up a project that would use sport as a tool to help young people in some of the worlds' poorest places, since sport has always played such a huge part in her own life. Playing for Life is developing Vocational Training Centres which will provide training for local people in office administration, tailoring and dressmaking and building trades with the purpose of giving them skills that are of benefit in the local community and halting the drift to the large cities where they will make up a large pool of unskilled labour. Grainne will be travelling in October to Arusha, a city in Northern Tanzania to work as a volunteer. All are welcome to take part in the Run to Africa over the weekend just bring your runners. And don't forget when you see the runners in the Navan Shopping Centre on the 3rd to the 5th of October to donate generously to their cause and help get them on their way! Tweet

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