The Lake Victoria Marathon is an annual event to create awareness about the challenge of plastic pollution and how to foster responsible plastic waste management and disposal, raise resources to support initiatives that seek to foster awareness about responsible use and disposal of plastic waste. 

The marathon will take place each in Jinja City in Uganda the source of the Nile on Lake Victoria. 

Lake Victoria is desired since it benefits several countries in Africa ranging from Burundi, Rwanda, DR cCongo, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Egypt, South Sudan Sudan and Kenya Among others.

Lake Victoria gains it's waters from and passes through those countries and pours into the Mediterranean sea.

The Lake Victoria has become a dumping site for plastic waste especially plastic bottles as bags among others. The UN says that plastic waste take about 400 years to degrade and its presence in the land and waters gets into living organisms and crops consumed by human beings causing serious health consequences in the long run.

It is on that brief background that the Marathon Derives it's name from Lake Victoria due to its strategic location.

The first edition of the Marathon is expected to take place in October 2024.

More details will be shared here in the due course.

To partner and or sponsor the Marathon, kindly reach us out on partnerships@tranetafrica.org