CAMFEB Breastfeeding Run 2027
WBW2027 Theme: BREASTFEEDING FOR A SUSTAINABLE START IN LIFE
Strengthen What Works
Event Details
The 2027 Breastfeeding Advocacy Run is CAMFEB's flagship public campaign event. It brings together families, healthcare professionals, employers, sponsors, and advocates to make breastfeeding support more visible during World Breastfeeding Week.
Location
The Waterfont Karen
Date
29th May 2027
Time
6:00 AM arrival | 7:00 AM flag-off
Expected Participants
4,000 - 5,000
Registration Fee
Kshs. 2,500 including medal, T-shirt, and bib
Race Categories
Choose the category that fits how you want to participate. The event welcomes runners, joggers, walkers, families, and corporate teams.
5km
Perfect for families and beginners
10km
For fitness enthusiasts
21km
For experienced runners
Mark the date. Lace up your shoes. On Saturday, 29th May 2027, The Waterfront Karen will once again come alive with runners, families, corporate teams and champions of one of the most powerful causes in Kenya today. Every mother has a right to breastfeed, and every child has a right to be breastfed. The CAMFEB Breastfeeding Run returns bigger, bolder and more purposeful than ever.
This is more than a race. It is Kenya’s flagship breastfeeding advocacy movement, and 2027 marks its most significant chapter yet: ten years since the enactment of the Health Act 2017, the law that first gave Kenyan mothers the right to lactation stations and reasonable breastfeeding support at work. In 2027, CAMFEB is asking the nation a simple but urgent question: One decade on, how far have our workplaces really come from legal commitment to lived reality? CAMFEB is inviting every runner, every organisation and every Kenyan to help answer it.
The Run
On race morning, Nairobi's running community, corporate teams, health professionals and families will take on a flat, scenic course at The Waterfront Karen, choosing from 5K, 10K or 21K. In 2027, CAMFEB is aiming higher than ever: 4,000 to 5,000 participants. Registration is fully online at KES 2,500 per participant, so wherever you are, securing your place takes minutes.Every runner who crosses that start line is doing far more than chasing a personal best. They are standing publicly behind a cause that shapes the health of the next generation. They are helping fund the infrastructure, training and advocacy that make breastfeeding possible for working mothers across the country.
The milestone: 10 Years of the Health Act 2017
In 2027, Kenya marks a decade since the Health Act 2017 was signed into law. This legislation for the first time obligated workplaces to provide lactation stations and reasonable support for breastfeeding employees. The law was a landmark commitment on paper. The CAMFEB Breastfeeding Run 2027 exists to ask what has since changed in practice.This 10th anniversary is a moment to celebrate real progress, to spotlight the employers and institutions that have already built breastfeeding-friendly workplaces. This anniversary will most importantly be an opportunity to mobilise fresh, concrete commitments from those who haven't yet started. Because ten years after a law is passed, the next milestone shouldn't be another anniversary. It should be implementation.
The Cause
Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life remains one of the simplest, most cost-effective interventions available to humankind. Breastfeeding strengthens immunity, supports brain development and lays the foundation for a lifetime of health. Kenya has made remarkable progress, raising exclusive breastfeeding rates from just 13% in 2003 to around 60% today. But for too many working mothers, returning to a job without a private space, a supportive policy or an understanding manager still means being forced to choose between their livelihood and their baby’s right to feed.
Breastfeeding is also one of the quietest climate solutions we have. Breastfeeding has no packaging, no industrial production and no emissions and so it directly advances Kenya’s commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals for health, gender equality, decent work, responsible consumption and climate action. Every step taken on race day is a step toward closing that gap between what the law promises and what mothers actually experience.
The milestone: 10 Years of the Health Act 2017
The 2026 Impact Report told CAMFEB something important: participants left the Run informed and inspired, but awareness of Kenya's legal workplace breastfeeding requirements remained low. In 2027, CAMFEB is going further than a single day of advocacy. CAMFEB is inviting organisations to convert that awareness into action through four practical adoption pathways:
Adopt a Lactation Pod — a dedicated, private, ready-to-use space for lactating employees.
Adopt a Lactation Space — establishment, equipping or transforming an existing room into a functional, dignified lactation area.
Adopt a Lactation Policy — develop or strengthen a clear, sustainable workplace breastfeeding policy.
Adopt Staff Sensitization — equip management, HR and teams to understand and champion breastfeeding support at work.
Organisations can adopt one pathway, combine several, or commit to all four either for their own workplace or by sponsoring the journey for another institution that needs this support. The call is simple: adopt now, implement by April 2027 and let’s celebrate the impact together at The Waterfront Karen on 29th May 2026
Why your step matters
Are you an individual runner chasing a new distance, a family looking for a morning of meaning, a running club ready to show up in numbers or a company ready to lead by example? There is a place for you at the start line on 29th May 2027.
Register to run — 5K, 10K or 21K, for KES 2,500 fully online at www.camfeb.org
Rally your team — bring your workplace, your club or your community together for a cause bigger than any finish line.
Adopt a pathway — commit your organisation to a lactation pod, space, policy or sensitization session, and be recognised as a leader on race day.
Spread the word — every share, every tag, every conversation brings Kenya closer to a country where no mother has to choose.Ten years ago, the law changed. This year, let's make sure the workplace does too. Every step you take on 29th May carries a mother's story, a baby's future, and a nation's promise a little further forward.
Every step taken during the run
translates into real support for breastfeeding mothers.
