KUCHING: Sacofa Sdn Bhd, Sarawak’s leading ICT infrastructure company behind Sarawak’s state-of- the-art telecommunications and information technologies development yesterday expressed its appreciation to the participants and sponsors of its upcoming community event Sacofa “Connecting With The Community” Run 2019 which will be held here on January, 6 2019.
To-date, 16 sponsors based in Sarawak, Peninsular Malaysia, and India have pledged funds and in-kind contributions with a total value of about RM245,000 towards organising the run which initially targeted 2,000 runners but has attracted 3316 participants.
Managing director of Sacofa, Zaid Zaini, said, “We are surprised and delighted with the keen participation in our “Connecting With The Community” Run 2019 from the public and the generous outpour of support from the business community.
“As this is our first organised run opened to the public, we initially wanted to keep it to 2,000 runners but we reached this target 24 days before the planned closing date of registration,” he said.
Race entitlements for all registered runners include a micro-dry fabric race T-shirt, bib, finisher medal, drawstring bag, towel, and 16GB USB pen drive.
The top 10 winners in the men’s 10km and women’s 10km categories will win cash prizes totalling RM3,200.
The run is expected to see a number of international participants, including from Kenya, Brunei and Indonesia.
