In 1998, the Worldwide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs sought to put forward a motion to the UNO making each 20th of November the Universal Children's Day.
 | To support this motion, Monaco's "Jeune Chambre Economique" devised various projects including the No Finish Line (NFL) event, the 1st edition of which took place in November 1999.
The principle behind NFL is simple: running or walking on a circuit that is open 24 hours per day for 8 days, non-stop. Participants simply enrol on the spot and they receive a t-shirt and a microchip; they can come along as often as desired and at any time, the aim being to clock up a maximum number of kilometres, which are taken into account at every lap by means of a microchip attached to the shoe. Our association undertakes to pay €1 for every kilometre covered to the projects we support for the benefit of children. In the light of the event's success in 1999 and 2000, and so as to turn it into an annual event, a humanitarian association, "Children & Future," was founded in 2001. The main fund-raising events organised to date have been No Finish Line and the NFL Show, a show combining dancing and acrobatic numbers. Since their first year, they have also been under the patronage of the sovereign, H.S.H. Prince Albert II. We pay particular homage here to H.S.H. Prince Albert II, who does us the honour every year of coming to run on the circuit. Since 2005 it has been our privilege and pleasure to be sponsored by Princesse Stéphanie.
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Key dates :  | 20 November 1959
Declaration of the Rights of the Child, UNO, New York
20 November 1989
International Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNO, New York
20 November 1999
Children's Day observed in Monaco for the first time
20 – 28 November 1999
1st No Finish Line, an event devised by Monaco's "Jeune Chambre Economique" to help mark this day and to promote it.
March 2001
The Children & Future association was founded to develop the NFL event and to foster other projects with the aim of helping children who are sick, abused or in difficulty.
Children & Future is represented by twenty or so unpaid members.
Its power and its image are strengthened by the involvement and generosity of sponsors, officials and representatives of the Prince's Government.
The NFL event represents:
- 7500 participants since its beginnings,
- more than €200,000 paid over to projects benefiting children,
- top-level sportsmen and women covering 700 km over 7 days or 220 km during the 24 hours that bears the seal of quality of the "International Athletics Federation"
- people of all ages and levels of physical fitness, covering1 km or 40 km each day, alone, as a family, among friends or with work colleagues.
Some of the projects supported:
- installation of computer equipment in the paediatric unit of the University Hospital Centre at L’Archet II in Nice for children who are hospitalised "long-term,"
- rehabilitation of the rural life and craftsmanship centre in Guiberoua, Ivory Coast,
- renovation of the "Virgen de Guadalupe" dispensary in Bale, Panama,
- purchase of state-of-the-art monitoring equipment for the neonatal unit of the University Hospital Centre at L’Archet II in Nice,
- saving young children with cardiac malformations by arranging for them to have operations at Monaco's Cardio-Thoracic Centre.
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