Sanctuary Runners, founded in Cork in 2018, won the top award at the world’s leading international sport and social impact awards ceremony in Copenhagen, Denmark last week.
The organisation, conceived by former journalist Graham Clifford, was named as the world’s best Community sport’s initiative for the integration of refugees.
Clifford, now head of International Development for the movement, was in Copenhagen to accept the award on behalf of Sanctuary Runners, which has welcomed over 40,000 people to one of its activities over the last seven-years in Ireland alone.
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