How it started
From 2014 I worked at a company where lots of employees did sport in their free time. There was even an unofficial company league tracking who had run or cycled the most kilometers. There were set routes where colleagues compared their times, and in summer we held a company triathlon.
In 2017 my colleague Dan Havelka came into my office and said:
“Jana, since we do so much sport here and keep track of our kilometers, I thought we could add a charitable side to it. We put a price on every kilometer, do sport all year, and then donate the total to someone in need.”
Dozens of questions, a few emails and a couple of meetings later, in fall 2017 we sent a message around the company announcing the new project. We asked colleagues to nominate people with disabilities from their own lives for us to do sport for in 2018. That first year we didn’t even need a vote – we received exactly one nomination.
