$600,000 for 60

A Campaign to Fight Human Trafficking

Fund Raising Goal – $600,000

How do we get to $600,000? If, together, we can find 10,000 people to give $60 each – we are there! This is so doable if we work together.

Join our team this year in celebration of my 60th birthday. I am going to spend the year running a series of marathons, half marathons and 10K’s, starting with the Kona Half Marathon on June 26, for the purpose of accomplishing two goals:

1. Get myself back in shape. (When I started this effort, I couldn’t run more 3 miles without huffing and puffing.)

2. Raise enough money to make a serious dent in the fight against human trafficking. I run free. I run healthy, but there are millions of girls (and boys) who are trapped in sex and labor trafficking nightmares who will never run free if we don’t do something. My goal for this year from all of the races is to raise $600,000 for the victims of human trafficking.

Six hundred thousand dollars is an audacious goal, but it is not an impossible one – not if we all do what we can. Recently, my children took me to see Kung Fu Panda 3 – a great children’s movie, with a great message: If we all do what we can and do it together (in hope), we can overcome the most heinous evil. Yes – even the evil of human trafficking. You can run with me for their freedom. (Who knows maybe we might even be able to get Jack Black to help us if he hears about this.)

Here is what I am asking: Join my team for any of the below events. Run with me so we can reach this $600,000 goal together.

All tax-deductible contributions made on behalf of our running efforts will go to help local victims, to help international victims, and to work for tougher laws against those who traffic human beings. Together in Hope will distribute the money three ways:

1/3 to Agape International Missions (AIM) in Cambodia, (fighting human trafficking on the international front) agapewebsite.org
1/3 to YMCA International (rescuing victims in the U.S.) https://www.ymcahouston.org/ymca-international/programs/
1/3 to Children At Risk (working for tougher laws to fight trafficking and to help victims) www.childrenatrisk.org

Together in Hope is a 501(c )3 public charity – check us out at www.togetherinhope.org

Thank you for joining my team so we may run and make a difference – Together in Hope.

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