UpRace 2025 will take place from November 28 to December 21, 2025, with the message "Every Step Matters" - Every step of running is meaningful.
During the 24-day journey, each team from businesses, schools, and communities will record their achievements on the UpRace application. Each km is equivalent to 1,000 VND, which will be converted by sponsors into a support fund for accompanying social organizations so that premature babies can be saved in time, wheelchairs to help people with disabilities confidently move to make a living, or babies in the highlands can keep their dream of going to class...
This year, the Dream Creating Fund (DMF) and VNG continue to be strategic sponsors, and the mobilized funds will accompany 3 social organizations that have been associated with UpRace for many years: Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund, Vietnam Association for the Protection of People with Disabilities and Orphans (ASVDO) and the Vietnam Center for Support for the Development of Maternal and Neonatal Care (Vietnam Neonatal).
UpRace 2025's millions of runs are expected to support 388 Newborn Life Support (NLS) scholarships for health workers, training classes help give life opportunities to thousands of Vietnamese newborns.
With the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund, 8,000 students in ethnic minority and island areas with difficult circumstances will continue to realize their dream of going to school in the 2025 - 2026 school year.
Meanwhile, ASVDO hopes that the contribution of UpRace 2025 will create conditions for the Association to donate wheelchairs, while supporting capital and livelihoods for people with disabilities with a level of 15 million VND/month, helping them to proactively move, reduce dependence and inferiority to proactively build their own lives. In particular, all three social organizations will focus on support activities in localities that have suffered heavy damage due to natural disasters and floods in the past.
This year's UpRace is also accompanied by two ambassadors: actor Kha Ngan and track and field athlete Tran Van Dang. In addition, UpRace 2025 also has the participation of many famous running clubs from all over the country.
To increase the spread of the project, the "offline" running event UpRace Day 2025 will be held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 14. It is expected that about 2,000 people will participate in 3 distances: 5km, 10km and 21km.
After 6 years of organization, UpRace has attracted more than 632 thousand participants and contributed more than 31.8 billion VND to social organizations. In 2023, nearly 7 million km of running, equivalent to 7 billion VND, brought scholarships to thousands of students in disadvantaged areas, created livelihoods for people with disabilities, supported high-risk newborns or implemented afforestation projects to protect the ecosystem.
