A group of players from the Dutch national women’s squad will be taking part in the 36th annual City-Pier-City run in Den Haag this Sunday, in order to raise money for the charity Right to Play.

The run, which offers a choice of distances from five kilometers to a half-marathon, takes participants through the city’s western suburbs, out to the beach resort of Scheveningen and back. The starting point in the city centre is at the Malieveld, a public park which was one of the first cricket venues in the country back in the nineteenth century.

Mandy Kornet of Hermes-DVS Schiedam, who launched the initiative, will take on the half-marathon, while her clubmate Laura Brouwers and national women’s coach Ed de Moura Correia will run 10 km. Three more Hermes players, Marijn Nijman, Nynke Nijman and Violet Wattenberg, and VRA Amsterdam’s Nathalie Hennis will do the 5 km. run.

Right to Play is an international, Toronto-based charity, established in 2003 by former Norwegian speed skating star Johann Olav Koss. It grew out of Olympic Aid, which was set up during the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

Its purpose is to encourage the health and development of children in some of the most underprivileged areas of the world through participation in sport, and currently runs projects in 23 countries, including Botswana, Sudan, the Palestinian territories, Peru and Uganda.