Run For The Children

Date

Start: Saturday, May 29, 2010 @ 8:00 AM

Additional Date Information

1 Mile @ 8 AM, 5K @ 8:30 AM

Address

Downtown Baton Rouge
Corner of N. BLVD and 3rd Street Baton Rouge, LA

Fees

$15

Registration Closing Date

Friday, May 28, 2010 @ 11:59 PM PST

Brief Description

This is the second annual Run for the Children, which will be taking place in downtown Baton Rouge on May 29, 2009. All proceeds from this even will be donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. This is a family friendly event. The 1 mile walk/run will start at 8:00 A.M., while the 5K run will start at 8:30 A.M. Starting location is North Blvd & 3rd street St. Run t-shirt is included in registration fee.

Additional Information

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the world’s premier center for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases. Since 1962 when the hospital opened, thousands of children from all 50 states and from around the world have been treated at St. Jude. Thousands more worldwide have benefited from research that St. Jude freely shares with the global medical community. Families never pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance. No child is denied treatment because of a family’s inability to pay. Net proceeds generated by the event will allow St. Jude’s physicians and scientists to continue pioneering treatments that have helped push the overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent in 1962 to more than 70 percent today. The survival rate for the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, has risen from just 4 percent in 1962 to 94 percent today.

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