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The Charity Miles App is a great way to combine personal health with your values of giving back to society.  Usually as I run with my dog I am reminding him to heal, but these days as we round the corner and head up the hill to our home I am begging him to pull me.  The truth is we are both a bit out of shape and equally in need of this exercise, so he looks back at me with those dewy eyes as if to say, “Must I?”.  My Charity Miles App is the inspiration to keep going on my run at this point because I set the personal goal not of distance, but to provide one child with a vaccine with my run.  O.K., also I will need to post my distance on social media to get the funds to go to the charity I have selected, so yes, my pride is involved as well.

My Charity Miles Running & Walking Partner

I was so excited to learn that the United Nations Foundation, with whom I am a Shot@Life Champion, was teaming up with my favorite iphone app Charity Miles.(also available for android)  During the month of February Charity Miles and the UN Foundation are spreading the love by hosting a #VDay10k challenge. Not 10 kilometers, but $10k. This challenge will inspire big hearts around the country to lace up and earn money for their favorite charities just by downloading the app, and participating in the virtual #VDay10k by talking a walk, run or bike ride.

The Charity Miles App certainly helps to motivate me when I need a little extra incentive to get moving, I leash my dog and lace up my running shoes knowing that while both my dog and I are getting much needed exercise, I am also raising funds for the causes I feel most passionate about.  Though I’m a bit shy about posting my not so lengthy runs, my hope  is that when others see the app in use it will encourage them to take part as well.  Although at the distances I go, 25 cents a mile doesn’t seem to add up to much, when you multiply that by all of the Charity Miles app users around the country, collectively we can make a big difference.  Through my work with Shot@Life I know that even individually I can make a difference too, the cost of vaccinating a child against Polio is only $1.00, so four miles later, a life is potentially saved.

The #Vday10k challenge runs through the month of February,during which you can donate your distance to a variety of United Nations Foundation campaigns.  The participating campaigns include Girl Up, where your miles will help a teen girl in a developing country safely attend school, Nothing but Nets where you will help protect a family from malaria, and Shot@Life where your miles will help to provide life-saving vaccines to children around the world that need it most.