Dar es Salaam, Wednesday, September 13th 2017 - The 2017 Dar Charity Goat Races event is finally here, scheduled to take place this Saturday, 16th September from noon at the Green on Kenyatta Drive.
The gates of the one day event organized by The Dar Charity Goat Races are set to open from 12pm and close at 17.15 pm. The main aim of the event is raise money to support small local organizations and charities that will use the funds to make a significant and sustainable impact on their work, benefiting the wider community within which they are based according to the 2017 Goat Race Committee Co-Chair, Rachel Carlin.
Speaking at a press conference held at Southern Sun in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, Ms. Carlin said the theme of the event for this year will go by ‘Let’s Goat Around the World’.
She said that as organizers they were very hopeful that this year the Races will prove to be as successful as in the past at raising money for charity.
“We are all very excited about this year’s event and are hopeful that the final Dar Charity Goat Races will end with a bang. We would like to thank all our amazing sponsors, both new and established, for showing such commitment and support to the Goat Races this year.”
She also acknowledged the support of the major race sponsors including: - Southern Sun Hotel, Tanzanian Breweries Limited, Coca-Cola (Kwanza), Stanbic Bank, Toyota Tanzania as well as SWISS International Airlines.
From his side, the marketing Director of CocaCola Kwanza, Nalaka Hettiarachchi said that supporting charitable organizations has always been their key objective in making sure that they build strong communities.
He said that the Goat Races is a platform that would bring awareness to the public in assisting local charity organizations with the aim of fostering social and economic development.
About the Dar es Salaam Charity Goat Races
The Dar es Salaam Charity Goat Races aims to raise funds for charities in Tanzania and at the same time hope to create a wider awareness in the community that there are those less fortunate than themselves who need our support. The Races bring the community together for a fun, family day out.
Since the first goats raced in 2001, the Dar es Salaam Charity Goat Races have quickly grown to become Dar’s premier charity event.
The idea of a goat-racing event, started in Uganda, where in 1993, members of the business community came up with a novel way of raising money for charity. They introduced the Goat Races, modeled on the UK Royal Ascot horse races, except with a rather more practical beastie for East Africa - the racing goat.
Each year the Dar es Salaam Charity Goat Races raise millions of shillings to support small local organizations and charities to carry out their work, and support their local community.
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