10-mile race to benefit water supplies for Africa

YOUNGSTOWN —Social Action Republica will sponsor its second annual 10 Miles to Cure Thirst race Saturday in downtown Youngstown.

The race will begin at the USA Parking Lot on Commerce Street next to the BW3 restaurant.

The race is designed to raise awareness and funds to build and repair water wells in Africa.

Registration is at 8 a.m., and the race begins at 9 a.m. The cost is $25. Walkers will travel a five-mile loop downtown. Runners will travel the loop twice.

Ten miles is the distance many people must travel in Africa to get clean water, race organizers say.

The cost of building a well is between $5,000 to $10,000, they added.

Social Action Republica is a local non-profit organization and a humanitarian arm of Youngstown Metro Church.

Social Action Republica’s members say they hope to raise enough to build a well when they travel to Liberia in July.