Thank you for believing in the work of the Richard M. Brodsky Foundation. This will be the 7th World AIDS Marathon In Kenya and I am so grateful just to be alive and to be able to help other people. I promised myself back in 2002 that if my life were spared from my brain cancer I would do everything I could do to help others less fortunate than me. Thank you for giving me the opportunity of keeping my promise.
If running marathons will help convince our Government and World leaders that 1,800,000 people need not die from AIDS every year, then I pray that God will give me the strength to continue running marathons. Let’s just get the AIDS medicine and follow-up medical care to people living with HIV all over the world. At the same time let’s make sure that clean drinking water and adequate, nutritious food is available to people all over the world for the AIDS medicine to be effective. Please join me in making a commitment to the 14,800,000 orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa that we will never forget these children. They could just as easily be our children if we were born in Africa. The pictures noted on this page show a few of the orphan dinner dances the Richard M. Brodsky Foundation has sponsored since 2006 and Mama Sarah, President Obama's grandmother, flagging off the 2008 World AIDS Marathon
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It is you the reader, sponsor, participant, volunteer who have inspired me to write this book. I'm HIV-positive, a brain cancer survivor and a marathon runner for life.
Start of World AIDS Marathon 2011, 29 wheelchair participants were included in a field of 404 runners.
The American Medical Student Association prepared this slide. This was one of the orphan dinner dances the Richard M. Brodsky Foundation. Since 2006, the Brodsky Foundation has sponsored orphan dinner dances for 2,800 Kenyan orphans.
Start of the 2004 World AIDS Marathon. Zeus, King of the G-ds came to Kisumu, Kenya to see how his modern day marathon was faring.
President Obama's grandmother, pictured in the blue dress, second from right, waved the Kenyan flag signifying the start of the 2008 World AIDS Marathon
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