Hundreds of students at an Irish university will be running thousands of miles to raise money for charity today.
The annual Med Day event has been hosted by medical students at Trinity College in Dublin for nearly 20 years, with hundreds of thousands of euro raised for worthy causes over the last two decades.
Typically, around 600 students will line the streets of the capital with collection buckets from 6am, asking passers-by for donations.
However due to the Covid-19 pandemic the majority of this year's event has to take place virtually, with a number of online webinars and workshops being held on mental health, wellbeing and motivation.
And this Friday students will also be walking, running, cycling, dancing, weightlifting, mountain biking and swimming their way to thousands of donations as they "utilise their 5km travel restrictions to the fullest".
Students are taking part in the "10/10/10 initiative", whether that be running 10k, doing 10,000 steps, doing 10 swims or bikes or any other customised goals, with the aim of each participant collecting ten tenners, or €100, in donations.
And at the time of writing the event has already raised a staggering €39,000 in donations alone - blowing past the original €25,000 target.
The organisations that are set to benefit from Med Day "2020+1" include Tallaght University Hospital, St James’s, The Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital and the Trinity Access Programme.
The event is also being sponsored by the Health Services Staffs Credit Union, the JP McManus Benevolent Fund and the Global Medics organisation.
- You can donate to the Med Day 2020+1 fundraisers at the website HERE.
