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Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital is a specialty hospital in Eldoret, Kenya founded in 2015. It is the first dedicated public children's hospital in East and Central Africa [ 1 ] and the second in Sub-Saharan Africa , after the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town , which opened in 1956.
The Shoe4Africa 5 km is an annual women's road running event over five kilometres that is held on Christmas Eve in the village of Iten, Kenya. Many world marathon stars have run this event. The 2012 Boston Marathon winner Sharon Cherop came second in the 2006 event and was the 2012 official starter.
The school was funded by Shoe4Africa to honor the world track and field 800m champion, and Olympic Silver medallist, Janeth Jepkosgei who had attended the former school in the 1990s. The school is a public primary, with eight classes from standard one to eight, thus was given to the community and the Kenyan Government as a gift from Shoe4Africa.
The hospital governs the Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital, a 200-bed fully serviced paediatric teaching hospital that is built within its grounds and is the only public children's hospital in East Africa. The Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital was opened in 2015, and in 2022, celebrated treating its millionth patient. [2]
The Shoe4Africa Moses Kiptanui School was opened in 2012 at Kamoi district, Marakwet and has eight primary classes with 320 students. ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
She took part in the inaugural Shoe4Africa Women's 10km race in Iten and ran a personal best of 36:02 to take second behind Doris Changeywo. The 21-year-old Cherop had begun training with a prominent group of road athletes, including Chicago Marathon winner Evans Rutto and Boston champion Lameck Aguta. [9]
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In November 2009, Tegla represented the Shoe4Africa team. [ 11 ] running the New York Marathon alongside founder Toby Tanser and actress Sarah Jones [ 12 ] finishing in 3:54:02. Loroupe is a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and ...