Cade Lucas
The second annual Mob Run This running festival will return to Wyndham during NAIDOC Week next month.
Hosted by Indigenous youth organisation Youth Support Advocacy Services, the festival will again be held along the Werribee River at Presidents Park in Wyndham Vale on July 9.
Aimed at celebrating NAIDOC Week, Mob Run This offers fun runs at one, three, five and 10 kilometer distances.
After attracting 600 runners to the inaugural festival last year, event organiser and YSAS youth worker, Scott Krakouer, said the second edition was set to be even bigger.
“We’re hoping to get 800 to a 1000.
We’ve already got 400 registered,” Krakouer said.
A Minang Noongar man and a runner himself, Krakouer said it’s a fun run event like no other.
“It’s unique to any other fun run in the country really because there’s a welcome to country, smoking ceremony and traditional dances.”
Along with celebrating NAIDOC Week, Krakouer said the festival was important for the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Melbourne’s west.
“I work with Aboriginal youth in the west and community in the west have just been crying out for services to support them, so it’s just bringing them all together, connecting them to services and each other and celebrating NAIDOC by prioritising their health and wellbeing by doing a fun run.”
Mob Run This is free and open to all runners.
For more details visit: rb.gy/18vge
