The World AIDS Marathon
The Richard M. Brodsky Foundation will be co-sponsoring its 17th annual World AIDS Marathon, half marathon, 10K & 5K on Rockaway boardwalk in Queens, New York on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2015. Join Richard and Jodi Brodsky and REGISTER for the marathon or half marathon. We will be traveling to Kenya in early to mid-December to sponsor 4 orphan dinner dances, 2 days of activities for special needs kids including art and music & dancing workshops, a meet & greet dinner, and 4 orphan dinner dances where doctors & nurses will be examining and treating orphans. For more information about joining us kindly write me at
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Dr. Richard Sartori, a Garden City, NY pediatrician has agreed to examine the children at the orphan dinner dances and run the half-marathon as well. It is our hope that other physicians will travel to Kenya next year and and provide medical care. We cannot sit idly by while one Kenyan child in 19 will die before their 5th birthday. Kenya is blessed with an alluring natural beauty of fauna and flora, but poverty is rampant. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, hunger, unsanitary drinking water and lack of medical resources and medication are taking an unconscionable toll in Saharan Africa. 15,100,000 orphans have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.
PICTURED RIGHT: Here’s why we keep returning to Kisumu. The orphans at Hope Initiative were so happy to see my wife Jodi and me return in 2010. One of the volunteers said it was because we were not some nameless, faceless donor whom the orphans would never meet; we were real people who genuinely cared about their well-being.
Says U.S. President Barack Obama,
“AIDS is the worst public health crisis in human history, and finding a cure is a priority of mine. But government cannont fight AIDS alone. People like you are invaluable working at the grassroots to show the human face and spirit that I believe will ultimately defeat AIDS. I wish you all the best for a successful race.”
PICTURED LEFT: President Obama’s grandmother presenting $1,000 in prize money raised by the Richard M. Brodsky Foundation. You might ask, ‘Where’s Richard?’ I finished dead last and Mama Sarah had a busy schedule. I was alerted about this in advance but I realized my Foundation's board members did not send me to Africa to run a half-marathon.
Find out more information by visiting the World AIDS Marathon HERE
