Between the days September 28 and October 5, 2025, Brazil will be the stage for a great movement of solidarity and overcoming: the Lions Charity Run 2025, a charity race with 839 km route, leaving from Curitiba (PR) towards Rio de Janeiro (RJ), passing through cities such as Registro, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Guaratinguetá, Resende and Juiz de Fora.

The goal is as grand as the challenge: raise funds to help children in socially vulnerable situations in Brazil, promoting transformation through social projects. The action is promoted by amateur athletes, members of Lions Club International, the world's largest humanitarian organization.

“We Run, We Serve!” – We run to serve

Guided by the motto “We Run, We Serve!”, eight runners from Poland, Germany, Ukraine, and Brazil will cross the Southeast of the country in 7 days. The event is 14th Lions Charity Run (LCR), an initiative that, since 2013, has covered more than 10,000 km in 19 countries and raised more than US$ 650 thousand for social causes aimed at underprivileged children around the world.

All funds raised follow the 100% rule: are fully allocated to the benefiting institutions, without any deductions. Runners finance their own participation, with support from sponsors and local Lions.

The Brazilian edition of the Lions Charity Run will benefit three institutions that work directly with children at social risk, one of which is the Aliança de Misericórdia in the São Paulo stage, as the project itself announced:

• Association for the Promotion of Sports and Leisure (São José dos Pinhais/PR): promotes inclusion and citizenship through sports and leisure, with activities such as volleyball, capoeira and social projects such as MOVE SOLIDÁRIO.
• Heart of the Alliance of Mercy Village (São Paulo/SP): Located in Parque de Taipas, a region marked by social vulnerability, Vila Cuore is an educational project that transforms lives through the comprehensive education of children and adolescents.
• Ricardo Moysés Jr. Foundation (Juiz de Fora/MG): offers dignified treatment to children and adolescents with cancer, providing medication, exams, prosthetics and medical equipment to increase their chances of a cure.

Charity race with purpose and history

A Lions Charity Run was born in 2013, conceived by Mariusz Szeib PhD, a businessman from Poznan, Poland. Since then, he has had the support of important names such as Lech Walesa, Antonio Tajani It is Roberta Metsola. None of the runners are professionals. They are architects, businesspeople, teachers, doctors—ordinary people who put themselves at the disposal of the extraordinary: serve through esportsProgramming in São Paulo

The city of São Paulo will have two days of special programming:

29/09 – Monday

• Arrival of athletes at Botuquara, followed by a visit to village cuore for symbolic delivery of the donation.
• 5 km race in Villa-Lobos Park.
• Closing with dinner at Lions of Vila Mariana.

09/30 – Tuesday

• Race at 8am at Ibirapuera Park, promoting visibility and support for the cause.

Over the years, LCR has contributed to the construction of schools in Nepal, Tanzania, Rwanda, Cambodia and Morocco, donated an ambulance to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and supported child victims of war in Ukraine. Now the focus is on Brazil, reaffirming that solidarity knows no borders.