International Veterinary Students' Association (IVSA) Estonia organizes this sporty fundraising event in order to collect donation for local target for rabies preventative work. Last year the collected funds were donated to local shelter, Tartu Varjupaik.
The event will be arranged on World Rabies Day in Tartu Anne canal's health trail just outside the city center. The idea is that participants donate 2 euros (or more if they please) and voluntarily join the group running/walking around the canal.
Even though Estonia is considered as rabies-free country, the preventative work is still great necessity due shared land border with Russia. Oral vaccination campaigns between 2005 and 2008 radically decreased recorded wildlife rabies cases and after March 2008 there haven't be new cases except few wildlife cases near border of Russia.
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