PACE FOR PEACE ANNOUNCES NEW RACE

One of Boise’s Best Winners–Sayed Bahauddin Mirbacha–is co-organizing another event that’s becoming a community staple, and this time, it's for a cause that hits home.

Sayed (right) with run participants at the race starting line.

Pace for Peace: Run for Afghanistan dropped their next race date: September 27, 2025 at Veterans Memorial Park. More than a run, its a movement. The youth-led project connects global and local communities through healthy activity, community building, and raising awareness for humanitarian causes.

Afghanistan is experiencing severe crises as the country grapples with hunger, droughts, a lack of social service infrastructure, and an influx of population due to two countries deporting recent and resettled Afghan refugees within the span of one year. 90% of the country’s population lives in poverty, with women and children making up 80% of people in need. Millions of children are unable to attend school due to several factors: many have to work to feed themselves, some lost parents due to near-constant war, and there is also a general lack of school infrastructure to accommodate them. 

In an interview with Mosaics Podcast, Sayed shared that Pace for Peace is “calling for action and calling for people to wake up. It's a good opportunity to remind people that we have to share community and humanity for each other.”

The Fall 2024 Pace for Peace 5K race event culminated in $7,000 raised for people internally displaced in the Congo. The Spring 2025 race with the Agency for New Americans saw $12,000 raised for Idaho refugee resettlement. Now, Sayed and his fellow organizers are putting on the Run for Afghanistan. Race tickets will go toward the Qamar Foundation’s mission, which is to tackle social injustice and poverty through education, and they are one of the only organizations left in the country providing social support services. Funds will be used for humanitarian relief such as food, clean water, and shelter.

“I moved here to the United States from Afghanistan in August 2021. I had no choice…” Sayed shares about this critical turning point, and coming to the United States where he attended high school, though he had already graduated that level back home, and is now attending BSU. He said he was inspired “When I met my friend Samuel Bisoka, another organizer, I feel like that was when I thought about other people who got displaced all around the world, and I thought it’s time for me to do something. We talked about what we can do because the situation is so heart breaking… I don't want to see other people around the world have the same experience as I have been through.”

Join the movement by buying tickets for the upcoming Pace for Peace 5K in September today!

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