‘Each mile I will run to raise funds for vulnerable children’
"Boston is the best race to run for Children’s Friend because this race represents love, courage, resilience, and determination."
In our “Why I’m Running” series, Boston Marathon runners share what’s inspiring them to make the 26.2-mile trek from Hopkinton to Boston. If you’re running the marathon, you can share your story here.
Name: Susan Carney Lynch
Age: 57
From: Westminster, Md.
On the morning of April 15 when I lace up my running shoes and walk to the start of the Boston Marathon, I will be running for an organization that is deeply personal for me — Children’s Friend of Rhode Island. You see, in the 1960s, Children’s Friend literally gave me my start in life. I was born in Providence and adopted through Children’s Friend in 1967. Starting with Children’s Friend’s loving care over 50 years ago, I am now in a position to help other vulnerable R.I. children and families by running Boston 2024 to support Children’s Friend’s great work.
Today, Children’s Friend serves Rhode Island’s most vulnerable children and families through adoption and foster care, birth parent counseling, Early Head Start, Head Start, WIC, and other child welfare and early childhood services. On the journey from Hopkinton to Boylston Street, each mile I will run to raise funds for vulnerable children in the area. Boston is the best race to run for Children’s Friend because this race represents love, courage, resilience, and determination – the very qualities that Children’s Friend embodies.
I ran Boston in 2013 and 2014. I felt courage, determination, and love in this city in those years. Pain giving way to strength and suffering forging bonds in community. In Boston, we start as individual runners and we leave as a community knit together by cheering crowds, orange slices, kids’ hi-5s, goldens with bandanas, and Boson Strong flags flying proudly along the route. I am running Boston for Children Strong!
Please join me in supporting Rhode Island’s children and families by supporting my run. I am running because I believe strongly that today’s children should get the same great start in life that I did over 50 years ago.
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