Nancy Kiprop runs for more than podium finishes. She uses her prize money to fund the school she built with her father back home. ❤️
The 40-year-old finished, which earned her $25,000 in prize money. That would be enough, she figured, to expand her school in Chesitek, a village just outside Iten,
Together they built two temporary buildings, but issues with the land and a shortage of money meant the project was put on hold for two years. “My dad was getting worried and telling me, ‘Are you able to accomplish this? Is this not too much for you?’ I was telling him to hold on, that things will be well.”In 2017 she won the Vienna Marathon and the Mattoni Ústí Half Marathon in the Czech Republic .
A look at the Nancie Cletius Academy in Iten, Kenya. Each building on school grounds is built with funds from Nancy Kiprop’s prize money, like the 2018 Vienna City Marathon.As a child, Kiprop’s home was almost two miles from her school, and it was a trip she made on foot four times a day, racing her siblings back at lunchtime.
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