Round the Globe Run - for a Better World

Together with World’s Children’s Prize, the Swedish Olympic Committee runs a project called Round the Globe Run - for a Better World. Tens of thousands of children in Sweden will learn more about the Olympic values and the global goals for sustainable development.

About 20 Swedish Olympians have been educated about the Olympic values and the global goals for sustainable development. They have visited about 100 schools in Sweden who are taking part in this project. The Olympians teach the students about the Olympic values, the Olympic movement and about the global goals for sustainable development. They also tell the students about their own carriers in sports and how important it is to work towards a goal. It doesn´t matter if it is in sports, school, work or other things in life but it´s always important to have a goal to strive for. By the 1st of April 2020 the Olympians will have visited about 250 schools in different parts of Sweden.

Olympic Medalist Danijela Rundqvist and Anders Södergren are two of Olympians who have visited Swedish schools since the start of the project in November last year.

- Sports is all about to strive for excellence and to reach a goal you dream of. These children also have big dreams and big goals, but for them it could be to make this planet a better place, says Rundqvist.

On 1st of April about one million children across the world participated in the Round the Globe Run for a Better World. Together they will complete up to 100 circuits of the globe, while highlighting the changes they want to see in support of children’s rights and the global sustainable development goals. The children are focusing in particular on equal rights for girls and reducing poverty and inequality.

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