Guardian Walkathon 2013 @ i-City Shah Alam

Morning! Walk For A Cause! Let’s go for a walk with me. This year Guardian’s Annual Charity Walkathon was held in i-City Shah Alam. I reached there around 715am, the weather and view was good that day. Guardian Walkathon 2013 @ i-City Shah Alam Walk For A Cause attracted over 2,500 participants. More Malaysians are taking their health seriously and getting involved with recreational and sports activities together with their family. Last year was at Guardian Annual Charity Walkathon 2012 @ Sunway Lagoon.

For some families this is a yearly event for them. After the walk they go to to iCity’s Waterworld, Snowalk and TrickArt Museum and spend their day there. The eager participants came as early as 7.00am to warm up with exercises as they prepared themselves to take the 8km, 3km and 1km routes respectively.

Before the flag off, we enjoyed a warm up session by fitness instructor and trainer, Adasandha. 

The general participants completed the 3km and 8km walks whilst 82 representatives from NASAM, 16 NACSCOM senior citizens and 26 representatives from NASOM finished their dedicated 1km and 3km routes respectively. 

This charity walkathon it a continuous efforts to generate health awareness at the same time Guardian also raised funds for the National Stroke Association of Malaysia (NASAM), National Autism Society of Malaysia (NASOM) and the National Council of Senior Citizens’ Organisation Malaysia (NACSCOM).

The walkathon is aimed at highlighting the importance of a healthy and balanced lifestyle in addition to raising funds for a worthy cause. 

This year’s walkathon raised RM48,000 in total, with RM24,000 from the public and RM24,000 matched by Guardian. NASAM, NASOM and NACSCOM each received RM16,000. After the walk, the activities continued with fun and games on stage, product samplings, Jazzercise by Adasandha and lucky draw.

In conjunction with the Guardian Charity Walkathon 2013 a special concourse promotion is held in 1 Utama Shopping Complex showcasing the participating brands; Bio-essence, Brands, Biogrow, Ensure, Futuro, Guardian, Kordel’s, Lifebuoy, L’oreal, Nivea, Omron, Panadol, Redoxon, Scholl, Schick, Super Kids and Tiger Balm.