01 — Build a Trail Running Community

We are growing a diverse, inclusive long-distance running community across Botswana — one that genuinely reflects the breadth of people who call this country home, and the visitors who come to explore it. Our weekly training runs in and around Maun are open to anyone. No entry standard, no competitive pressure. Just people who want to move through this remarkable landscape together.

02 — Create and Support Running Events

OMP organises its own trail running events and actively supports other grassroots events getting off the ground across Botswana. From short community runs to multi-day trail events, we want to build a genuine events culture in a country that has the terrain for world-class races but almost none of them yet. If you are starting a running event in Botswana, we want to help.

03 — Create Jobs in a New Sector

Long-distance trail running and hiking represent an almost entirely untapped opportunity in Botswana’s adventure travel sector. International visitors come here for safari — but many would run here too, if the infrastructure existed. OMP is creating it.

We train long-distance running hosts and guides: local runners with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead international visitors on trail experiences through some of Africa’s most extraordinary landscapes. We also support the development of guided hiking, trekking, and multi-day wilderness travel — building careers in a sector that barely existed here five years ago.

04 — Promote Health, Wellbeing & Mental Wellness

Running transforms lives. Not through motivation or inspiration, but through the practical, physical reality of what a consistent training habit does to a person — the fitness it builds, the focus it creates, the sense of capability it develops over time.

But the mental side is just as powerful. Running clears the mind. It offers headspace that is genuinely difficult to find elsewhere — a regular, structured reason to step outside, move, and reset. In communities where opportunity can feel limited, that matters enormously.

OMP is not a social programme — it is a running community. But the belonging it creates, the hope it offers, and the doors it opens go well beyond the sport itself.

05 — Find and Support Exceptional Runners

This is where we dare to dream.

Botswana has produced world-class athletes. We believe it can produce world-class ultra-runners — people capable of competing at the highest level in one of the fastest-growing disciplines in sport. OMP is actively identifying that talent, and providing the coaching, equipment, nutrition, and race entry support needed to develop it.

Our goal is to sponsor places for OMP runners at trail and ultra-running events across Africa and beyond — so that the next generation of Botswana’s great long-distance athletes can compete on the world stage and return home having represented their community and their country with pride.

The more support and sponsorship we secure, the more runners we can back. That is the ambition. It starts here.