Living Giving: The Story of the 'Mile 7 Shirt'

What if … ?
If one running shirt brought that much joy to one child, what would happen if I could come up with a campaign to obtain running shirts on a much bigger scale for Youth Villages?

I found running websites with race information and began e-mailing race directors around the world. Several days later, packages began arriving. And more packages. And boxes. And boxes. And boxes. From across the planet. Beautiful, high-quality marathon, ultra-marathon, trail run, half-marathon, 10K, 5K, Ironman Triathlon shirts began arriving from as far away as Ghana, Brazil, Australia, The Netherlands, Ireland, Egypt … (from 39 countries so far) and all across the U.S. (from 39 states and counting). The Boston Marathon even sent 20 stunning marathon shirts! And the icing on the top (of the world) and the bottom (of the world)? Shirts from the North Pole Marathon and the Antarctica Ice Marathon. We even got finisher medals — close to 500 from various races!