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My name is Richard Brodsky and I am President of the Richard M. Brodsky Foundation. Welcome to the Foundation’s first 5k / AIDS / Cancer / Survive / Run / Walk in America. As you will notice, this website is about much more than a 5k; it is about changing and saving lives. It is about daring you to get off your behind, putting down the TV clicker, and facing each day knowing that YOU are starting over. You’ve been granted that second chance, that third chance, whatever.
Your mission for the day is to believe in yourself.
Buy, borrow, or beg for a pair of running shoes. Next, call your doctor and tell him that “I’m taking up running, am I healthy enough?” If he says, “NO,” then tell him, “I’m taking up walking.” If he still says no, find another doctor who will have the confidence to believe in you. Or invite your doctor to participate in the 5k as a way of showing his support for you.
FOR THIS ONE DAY ONLY, June 22nd, 2008 you have an opportunity to be part of history. If this first 5k / AIDS / Cancer / Survive / Run / Walk is a success, more events will follow in a different American city every few months. There are so few 5k AIDS / Cancer events in America. Also, June 22nd, 2008, in Cedar Creek Park, from 10AM – 2PM, women will have the opportunity to have a free mammography, if they are uninsured. There will be free AIDS testing for all. The foundation’s mission for the American 5k events is to not just help Africans, but to help Americans living with AIDS and / or cancer, and to provide early detection of AIDS and cancer which will ease the suffering and prolong life if the diseases are discovered in their early stages. And for children who are diagnosed with cancer, we want to reach out to these children and give them toys.Raising money for charity is not easy, but if we can appeal to corporate America and request items such as shampoo, laundry detergent, dish soap, deodorant, cologne or perfume, tissues, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and any free samples people and corporations will donate—these items, in their original wrapping, packaged nicely in a basket could be presented to people living with HIV and cancer during their hospital stay or upon leaving a hospital or attending an organized meeting of AIDS sufferers or cancer survivors. For further information about who will receive these baskets, click on the link, Who We Support. If you would like to donate any of the items listed above please visit the link, Product Donations.
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