BOSTON – Members of the Suffolk women's hockey team joined #TheHumanRace, a global challenge for climate action in solidarity with people who need it most in honor of World Humanitarian Day Thursday, Aug. 19.

Rams joined the challenge, a campaign by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and humanitarian partners, by logging 100 minutes of total activity between August 16-31, to demand climate action. Every minute of activity, whether running, walking, swimming, roller , etc., counts towards carrying the message to world leaders at COP26, the annual UN climate change conference. Solidarity beings with developed countries fulfilling their decade old pledge of $100 billion annually for climate action in developing countries. 

World Humanitarian Day (WHD), August 19, was created five years after a bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq that killed 22 humanitarian aid workers, including the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.

Each year, WHD focuses on a theme, bringing together partners from across the humanitarian system to advocate for the survival, well-being and dignity of people affected by crises, and for the safety and security of aid workers. 

This year, WHD highlighted the immediate human cost of the climate crisis by pressuring world leaders to take meaningful climate action for the world's most vulnerable people. 

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How Suffolk Women's Hockey Logged Their 100 Miles for #TheHumanRace

• Head Coach Taylor Wasylk walked her dog Sushi around East Boston 
• Senior Natasha Savage rollerbladed through Boston and Newport, R.I.
• Senior Madison Duff biked in her hometown, Novi, Mich.
• Freshman Hannah Gordon walked through Tamerlaine Sanctuary and Preserve, home to rescued animals from the food industry, in Montague, N.J.
• Senior's Shana Cote and Julia Volpe skated together in Littleton, Colo.

Women's Hockey Joined #TheHumanRace