A Bay State cancer-fighting fundraising workforce did so effectively working within the chilly of their skivvies that they’ve been declared one of the best within the Bay State and nation.
The 70-plus members of the “Cure NF with Jack” joggers clocked in with $65,000 raised from the Cupid’s Undie Run in Boston. It’s all for the Children’s Tumor Foundation for neurofibromatosis, or NF.
Boston additionally got here in first in cities throughout the nation in fundraising totals, clearing over $178,000.
It was all for teenagers, together with a 9-year-old and 3-year-old with NF who impressed workforce members to courageous the chilly after they met the kids years in the past.
Team member Rebecca Soulliere of Leominster mentioned all of it “started nine years ago” when a good friend requested her “to do this crazy run” for charity.
“I figured it was a one-and-done until I met Jake and Jack Burke,” she mentioned of the workforce’s namesake and his father. “Jack was merely 9 years old and so damn cute with his brother Luke in their red union suits. I was so taken by the family I knew I would be back.”
Not lengthy after her first lingerie run Soulliere discovered that her good friend and fellow metropolis resident Maria Joffrion’s “beloved son” Tommy, whom she has identified since he was 3, was recognized with NF on prime of battling persistent myelogenous leukemia, or CML.
“I just committed myself personally to this cause as long as I am able,” Soulliere mentioned. “I’m committed to breast cancer based on personal experience but this is just near and dear to my heart.”
NF is a genetic dysfunction that causes tumors to develop on nerves all through the physique and impacts 1 in each 3,000 births.
The Undies Run was held at Game On! on Lansdowne Street final month. The job takes dressed-down runners alongside Lansdowne and thru Fenway Park.
And the kids the workforce honors every year at the moment are teenagers doing nice.
“For an entire decade now, hundreds and hundreds of Bostonians, our friends, our families, and their friends and families have come together not simply to raise money in a crazy run in their underwear,” dad Jake Burke mentioned. “What they’ve done is tell my son Jack and all those battling NF that they are not alone, and that is everything.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”