Recover Brands proudly returns as our shirt partner for the sixteenth annual Run For The Water. A uniquely transformative event, entry to Run For The Water allows the Gazelle Foundation to provide people in Burundi with access to clean water – for life. For 16 years running, the Gazelle Foundation has thrown the best race in town. Each November, over 5,000 runners and walkers take to the streets of downtown Austin for the annual Run For The Water 10 Miler, 5K, and Kids K through our beautiful west Austin course.
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Today, Recover Brands whose mission is to sell 100% recycled t-shirts and apparel made from discarded water bottles and cotton returns as the official shirt partner for participants of the Gazelle Foundation’s 16th annual Run For The Water event. The premier racing event attracts beginners and veterans alike and continues to inspire runners to lace up every year to help bring a crucial resource to people living on the other side of the globe.
“Together with Recover Brands race participants can show their support of clean water in style, and know that they’re good for the planet too. We’re thrilled Recover Brands is back again this year so that our impact on daily life in Burundi can continue to expand," said Cheryl Teekell, race director of Run For The Water. “Being the participant shirt sponsor of the iconic race is an excellent way to support families, and healthy lifestyles, and be an engaged part of the Austin Community,” said Teekell.
“Run For The Water t-shirts are perennial favorites. Worn long after race day. Recover Brands and Gazelle Foundation know that simple solutions can solve big problems. We’re proud to partner with a company that produces environmentally friendly and socially responsible t-shirts for participants," said Courtney Waldren, executive director of the Gazelle Foundation. Recover Brand has supplied participant shirts since 2019. “Partnerships like the one we have with Recover Brands are critical to making our event and mission possible. On November 6th, athletes of all abilities will challenge themselves to have fun and race to improve the lives of families in Burundi. Having a t-shirt that lets participants easily identify themselves as race finishers and someone who directly brings clean water to someone in Burundi, that’s a win-win, ” said Waldren. Learn more about Recover Brands.
Recover Brands Create the best, most environmentally friendly and socially responsible products possible, and to educate and inspire those around us to live and work for a sustainable tomorrow.
In 2010, Bill and John founded Recover as a mission-driven sustainable apparel company that would not only reduce plastic pollution in our rivers, oceans, landfills, and adventure playgrounds, but would also give people an easy choice to be part of a solution instead of part of a problem. They wanted to develop a company that focused on being as environmentally-friendly and socially responsible as possible in all aspects of the business - from design to manufacturing to fulfillment.
Recover is also committed to ending the global water crisis, and even started Recover’s Clean Water Initiative, making our partnership an even more perfect fit. When you shop Recover, you support the protection of every person’s right to clean water- locally and globally. Recover works with a local group Waterkeepers and the global organization World Vision to protect communities’ rights to clean, drinkable, fishable, swimmable water. Within their own community, the Recover Clean Water initiative directly donates to, and volunteers with Catawba, Watauga, Green, and French Broad Riverkeepers. Globally, they work with various groups in developing countries to expand clean water access to those who need it with long-term, sustainable solutions.
Recover Brands has produced Run For The Water t-shirts since 2019. In 2010, Bill Johnston and John Riddle founded Recover as a mission-driven sustainable apparel company that would not only reduce plastic pollution in our rivers, oceans, landfills, and adventure playgrounds, but would also give people an easy choice to be part of a solution instead of part of a problem.
Left to right: Peter Rauch and Gilbert Tuhabonye, co-founders of the Gazelle Foundation, Hannah Moore Lewis, Courtney Waldren, executive director of the Gazelle Foundation at 2021 Run For the Water event.
On Sunday, November 6, 2022, the Gazelle Foundation will produce the 16th annual Run For The Water 10-Miler, 5K, and Kid’s K. The race, has been named Austin’s best of by "Austin Runner Magazine", and a “crown jewel and must-do event for beginners and veterans alike” it is the marquee event for our charity. Runners are treated to experience Austin at its best. The Gazelle Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that implements charitable efforts to improve life for people in Burundi, Africa, and offers assistance to children of our community in Central Texas. Run for the Water is the Gazelle Foundation's annual fundraiser and allows us to continue our mission that to date has provided over 115,000 people with access to clean water. See the lasting impact the race has on real people in need.
Gilbert Tuhabonye leads the Gazelle Foundation, and he is a renowned motivational speaker and local running coach. Gilbert is a survivor of genocide, having been locked in a burning building with 150 of his classmates during the civil war that plagued his country from the early ’90s to mid-2000s. Gilbert used his running ability to eventually make it to the US, carry the Olympic torch in ’96, win multiple National Championships as a collegiate runner, and now give back to the Austin community through his Gilbert’s Gazelles training group, as the coach at St. Andrews High School, and the Gazelle Foundation. Naturally, he decided that a road race would be the Foundation's marquee event and fundraiser, the race is a signature fall event in Austin.
RACE LOCATION AND START TIME
November 6, 2022 — Run For The Water
Kids K (9:15 am) starts and finishes on South 1st Street Bridge
10-mile and 5k (7:00 am) Cesar Chavez east of Lamar Blvd
INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT PARTNERSHIPS?
All sponsorships are tax-deductible and benefit the Gazelle Foundation*
Please use the link below to have Cheryl, from our team, contact you. Or email: cheryl@gazellefoundation.org