Mama Obama, Barack's Granny, flags off World AIDS Marathon

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If you cannot see the image below, you may need to click on the button that says not a scam and load images or other similar wording. December 12, 2008MAMA SARAH OBAMA,BARACK'SKENYAN GRANDMOTHER pictured above are four of the eight wheelchair athletes who completed the marathon and Mama , second from right.FLAGGED OFF THE2008 KISUMU, KENYAWORLD AIDS MARATHONpictured below is Mama , flag in hand, flagging off the marathon for the runnersMama

also cut the ribbon officially opening the children's playground

at Jomo Kenyatta Sports Stadium. Kenya's leading newspaper, The Daily

Nation, covered the story

on its front page. The park was donated from funds raised by the Kisumu

World AIDS Marathon Group. Both the M. Brodsky Foundation and

the Kisumu World AIDS Marathon Group co-sponsored the 2007 and 2008

World AIDS Marathon, orphan dinners and children's walk.photo

above: courtesy of Mr. Owiti, photographer and the Nation Media

Group Limited as the Publisher of the Daily Nation, a leading newspaper

in Kenya.photo below: taken by Violet Achieng, YGCPictured

below is Mama having dinner with the organizing committee of the

World AIDS Marathon at the Imperial Hotel in Kisumu, November 30th,

2008. Standing, left to right, is ph Ochieng, Board Member of the

M. Brodsky Foundation and racing official with Athletics Kenya;

Betty Okero, Director CSO; Brodsky, President of M.

Brodsky Foundation; Alie Eleveld, Board Member of the M.

Brodsky Foundation and Project Manager Safe Water and AIDS Project;

Masrat Obama, Mama 's daughter; Eunice Dollar, Tuungane Project;

Violet Achieng, YGC Orphanage. Seated, left to right, is Jodi Brodsky,

's wife; Mama ; and a friend of Mama 's.The World AIDS Marathon and related Events were attended by over 1,400 people. Pictured below are the real heroes of the day.-288 runners participated in the Marathon and Half Marathon.-250 children participated in the 5k Childrens Walk.-275 orphans were served dinner at Reach-Out Orphan Support Center-86 orphans were served dinner at St. 's Orphanage-500+ people (exact number to be determined) were tested for AIDS 8

wheelchair athletes completed the marathon / half marathon and were

each awarded 1,000 shillings, about $13. Not a bad deal considering the

entry fee was only 50 shillings, about 65 cents and all participants

received an Event t-shirt. The balance of the $1,000 prize money was

awarded to the top 5 male / female participants of the half and full

marathon. The winning wheelchair participant for the full marathon was

Oriwa Riako and for the half marathon, Ochieng took home

the GOLD. First place winners for the following races were:Marathon (male) Hillary Mutahi 2:19:28Marathon (female) Helen Chenonges 3:04:19Half Marathon (male) Leonard Leting 1:07:12Half Marathon (female) Rose Jebet 1:22:30All runners also received a Certificate of Completion. That's me, , handing out a Certificate to one of the finishers.My

name is Brodsky and I'm President of

the M. Brodsky Foundation. I am HIV-positive for 11 years and a

brain

cancer survivor for 6 years and I run marathons to raise awareness that

millions of lives can be saved if access to the AIDS medicine and

follow-up

medical care is available to HIV-postive people. My HIV-negative wife

Jodi and I both completed our 5th World AIDS Marathon in 04:52 and

04:59:32 (that's me in the yellow shirt at the FINISH). Only 365 days

to the 2009 World AIDS Marathon!

Even if you did not make it to Kenya this year, you can still make a donation to the M. Brodsky Foundation. This

will be the final press release for fundraising for the 2008 World AIDS

Marathon and the Foundation's ongoing projects and expenses before we

start fundraising for the 2009 World AIDS Marathon in the spring of

2009.250

children participated in the Children's Walk and were served snacks ar

the end of the walk. I personally received pledges from the following

local Kisumu businesses: Imperial Hotel, Mon Amie, Nakurmatt, and the

Kenshop for 50 loaves of bread, 8 kilos of margarine and $125 cash.

Compulynx Nyanza, Ltd. and the Braeburn Kisumu International School

provided juice, biscuits and food to the children. Thank you to all.Special

thanks to Channa and her husband Dr. Silverstein, President of

the Nairobi Hebrew Congregation, for inviting Jodi and me,

Brodsky, to stay at their home in Nairobi. It was very comforting to

stay with the Silverstein's especially since it was Thanksgiving and

Jodi and I were far away from our children. Jodi and I had a chance to

reflect how lucky we are to be living in America where we take so much

for granted: access to health care for the majority of Americans,

enough nutritious food to eat, and access to AIDS medicine and

follow-up medical care. In Africa, sadly this is not the case as

poverty, malaria and tuberculosis also are major concerns and have a

great impact on reducing life-expectancy.Jodi

and I had the opportunity to visit the local Nairobu Hebrew Congrgation

and pray that we would run a successful race and we will have the

opportunity to run in many more World AIDS Marathons and raise a lot of

money for AIDS and cancer charities.Pictured

below are four photos (taken on November 30, 2008) of the Nairobi

Hebrew Congregation followed by three photos of St. 's

orphanage and the November 29th orphan dinner at the orphanage.St.

's orphanage pictured below. Ten of the 86 orphans are

HIV-positive and some have been orphaned from the 2007 post-election

strife in Kenya and the other children have lost their parents due to

AIDS. Sister Philemona, acting mother in the pink outfit cares for all

the children as if they were her own. All ten of the HIV-positive

children are taking AIDS medicine. 36

children sleep in a room that measures 22' X 24'. These are the lucky

children as they have malaria nets. There are nine bunk beds in the

room and two children sleep on each very thin mattress. Note the

mattress on the left. Sunday,

December 30th, 2008, the M. Brodsky Foundation sponsored a

dinner for 275 orphans at Reach Out Orphans Support Center. This was

the second year the dinner was at Reach Out.Picture

below is and Jodi Brodsky serving dinner to the orphans at

Reach-Out. Our host, Hezekiah Nyaranga cares for the 350 orphans during

the day and the orphans return home in the evening so the state cannot

take away their land.It

was very difficult raising money for this year's marathon and orphan

dinners but Jodi and I decided it was important for us to run the

marathon and let the orphans know that we represent people in America

who really do care about the orphans in Africa. If you've already given

a donation to the M. Brodsky Foundation, thank you very much.

It is not too late to make your donation now.

My Kenyan Board Members have suggested for next year we plan projects

based on sustainability. For example, in addition to the orphan

dinners, we could provide seed for orphanages to grow their own produce

and if they show good results, we could fund these orphanages on an

annual basis. Naturally this will depend on donations.

Special thanks to a lot of people

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I

would like to thank President-Elect Barack Obama; President Clinton;

, former United Nations Special Envoy for HIV / AIDS in

Africa; Senator Ted Kennedy; Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy; Nassau

County Executive Tom Suozzi; and Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate

Murray for their support for the Foundation's work which includes its

annual World AIDS Marathon held in Kisumu, Kenya as well as the 5k AIDS

/ Cancer / Survive / Run / Walk in America. These letters can be viewed

by visiting the website link, view letters. The American Medical Student Association, AMSA, has also created a story line of the Foundation's work which can be viewed by read about .

The One Campaign has also been very supportive of my work. If you are

interested in hearing me speak and seeing photos of the Foundation's

work in America, the One Campaign and the American Medical Student

Association have covered my speaking fee in the past.

ABOUT THE FOUNDATION

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Foundation donates money

to various AIDS projects in Kenya, AIDS and cancer research projects in

America and to organizations providing aid to people living with HIV

and cancer. To make a donation to the M. Brodsky Foundation you

can mail a check to the Foundation's address, M. Brodsky

Foundation, 1247 Mara Court, Atlantic Beach, NY 11509, USA, or visit

the Foundation website and click on the PayPal donate link. Alternately you can make your donation via the World AIDS Marathon website,

by clicking on the Donate link. A $100 donation will entitle you or

your company to have your name on the 2008 World AIDS Marathon

commemorative t-shirt and a $250 donation will entitle you to a logo on

the shirt. In addition, the shirt will be mailed to you. For further

details about the 2008 World AIDS Marathon you can visit the World AIDS Marathon website

For more info about the Foundation's mission and the World AIDS Marathon, please visit Foundation website & World AIDS Marathon website. There are some great photos of the 2007, 2006 and 2004 World AIDS Marathon which can be viewed by visiting photos 2007, photos 2006 and photos 2004.

Save the date, June 21, 2009~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The

M. Brodsky Foundation will be sponsoring its second annual 5k

AIDS Cancer Run Walk in Cedar Creek Park on June 21, 2009. Last year

the Foundation donated $11,500 in toys, gift items, toiletry items to

children living with pediatric cancer at Schneider Children's Hospital,

gift / toiletry items to breast cancer survivors at Nassau University

Medical Center, and gift / toiletry items to people living with HIV who

were clients of Long Island Minority AIDS Coalition, Long Island

Association for AIDS Care, and Planned Parenthood of Nassau County. In

addition, there were over $2,000 in give-away prizes.

(photo, courtesy of Mike Polansky of the Greater Long Island Running Club)

Please

consider making your annual contribution to the M. Brodsky

Foundation as the Foundation's work has become my life's work. The

foundation also sponsored its first 5k AIDS Cancer Survive Run Walk

in Seaford, Long Island on June 22, 2008 and will be sponsoring another

5k Event on June 21, 2009. There are no other Presidents of Foundations

who are HIV-positive and have brain cancer whose main fundraising

activity consists of running marathons. But if running marathons can

help raise awareness that hundreds of thousand lives can be saved each

year if access to the AIDS medicine is free for people who cannot

afford the AIDS medicine, then I have no choice but to continue running

marathons.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We are always looking for volunteers so if you've managed to read

this entire newsletter, we could really use your help. Please contact

me, , at the contact information below.

M. Brodsky Foundation

1247 Mara Court

Atlantic Beach,NY 11509

Contact: Brodsky

Phone: (516) 770-7724 (516) 432-1254

E-Mail: M.Brodsky@...

Very Truly Yours,

Brodsky,

M. Brodsky, President of M. Brodsky Foundation

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://www.worldaidsmarathon.com marathon website

http://www.richardmbrodsky.org foundation website

http://trebloon.com book website

http://www.5kAIDScancer.com 5k run in America website

Contact Information

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~phone: 516-770-7724 or M.Brodsky@...

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If you cannot see the image below, you may need to click on the button that says not a scam and load images or other similar wording. December 12, 2008MAMA SARAH OBAMA,BARACK'SKENYAN GRANDMOTHER pictured above are four of the eight wheelchair athletes who completed the marathon and Mama , second from right.FLAGGED OFF THE2008 KISUMU, KENYAWORLD AIDS MARATHONpictured below is Mama , flag in hand, flagging off the marathon for the runnersMama

also cut the ribbon officially opening the children's playground

at Jomo Kenyatta Sports Stadium. Kenya's leading newspaper, The Daily

Nation, covered the story

on its front page. The park was donated from funds raised by the Kisumu

World AIDS Marathon Group. Both the M. Brodsky Foundation and

the Kisumu World AIDS Marathon Group co-sponsored the 2007 and 2008

World AIDS Marathon, orphan dinners and children's walk.photo

above: courtesy of Mr. Owiti, photographer and the Nation Media

Group Limited as the Publisher of the Daily Nation, a leading newspaper

in Kenya.photo below: taken by Violet Achieng, YGCPictured

below is Mama having dinner with the organizing committee of the

World AIDS Marathon at the Imperial Hotel in Kisumu, November 30th,

2008. Standing, left to right, is ph Ochieng, Board Member of the

M. Brodsky Foundation and racing official with Athletics Kenya;

Betty Okero, Director CSO; Brodsky, President of M.

Brodsky Foundation; Alie Eleveld, Board Member of the M.

Brodsky Foundation and Project Manager Safe Water and AIDS Project;

Masrat Obama, Mama 's daughter; Eunice Dollar, Tuungane Project;

Violet Achieng, YGC Orphanage. Seated, left to right, is Jodi Brodsky,

's wife; Mama ; and a friend of Mama 's.The World AIDS Marathon and related Events were attended by over 1,400 people. Pictured below are the real heroes of the day.-288 runners participated in the Marathon and Half Marathon.-250 children participated in the 5k Childrens Walk.-275 orphans were served dinner at Reach-Out Orphan Support Center-86 orphans were served dinner at St. 's Orphanage-500+ people (exact number to be determined) were tested for AIDS 8

wheelchair athletes completed the marathon / half marathon and were

each awarded 1,000 shillings, about $13. Not a bad deal considering the

entry fee was only 50 shillings, about 65 cents and all participants

received an Event t-shirt. The balance of the $1,000 prize money was

awarded to the top 5 male / female participants of the half and full

marathon. The winning wheelchair participant for the full marathon was

Oriwa Riako and for the half marathon, Ochieng took home

the GOLD. First place winners for the following races were:Marathon (male) Hillary Mutahi 2:19:28Marathon (female) Helen Chenonges 3:04:19Half Marathon (male) Leonard Leting 1:07:12Half Marathon (female) Rose Jebet 1:22:30All runners also received a Certificate of Completion. That's me, , handing out a Certificate to one of the finishers.My

name is Brodsky and I'm President of

the M. Brodsky Foundation. I am HIV-positive for 11 years and a

brain

cancer survivor for 6 years and I run marathons to raise awareness that

millions of lives can be saved if access to the AIDS medicine and

follow-up

medical care is available to HIV-postive people. My HIV-negative wife

Jodi and I both completed our 5th World AIDS Marathon in 04:52 and

04:59:32 (that's me in the yellow shirt at the FINISH). Only 365 days

to the 2009 World AIDS Marathon!

Even if you did not make it to Kenya this year, you can still make a donation to the M. Brodsky Foundation. This

will be the final press release for fundraising for the 2008 World AIDS

Marathon and the Foundation's ongoing projects and expenses before we

start fundraising for the 2009 World AIDS Marathon in the spring of

2009.250

children participated in the Children's Walk and were served snacks ar

the end of the walk. I personally received pledges from the following

local Kisumu businesses: Imperial Hotel, Mon Amie, Nakurmatt, and the

Kenshop for 50 loaves of bread, 8 kilos of margarine and $125 cash.

Compulynx Nyanza, Ltd. and the Braeburn Kisumu International School

provided juice, biscuits and food to the children. Thank you to all.Special

thanks to Channa and her husband Dr. Silverstein, President of

the Nairobi Hebrew Congregation, for inviting Jodi and me,

Brodsky, to stay at their home in Nairobi. It was very comforting to

stay with the Silverstein's especially since it was Thanksgiving and

Jodi and I were far away from our children. Jodi and I had a chance to

reflect how lucky we are to be living in America where we take so much

for granted: access to health care for the majority of Americans,

enough nutritious food to eat, and access to AIDS medicine and

follow-up medical care. In Africa, sadly this is not the case as

poverty, malaria and tuberculosis also are major concerns and have a

great impact on reducing life-expectancy.Jodi

and I had the opportunity to visit the local Nairobu Hebrew Congrgation

and pray that we would run a successful race and we will have the

opportunity to run in many more World AIDS Marathons and raise a lot of

money for AIDS and cancer charities.Pictured

below are four photos (taken on November 30, 2008) of the Nairobi

Hebrew Congregation followed by three photos of St. 's

orphanage and the November 29th orphan dinner at the orphanage.St.

's orphanage pictured below. Ten of the 86 orphans are

HIV-positive and some have been orphaned from the 2007 post-election

strife in Kenya and the other children have lost their parents due to

AIDS. Sister Philemona, acting mother in the pink outfit cares for all

the children as if they were her own. All ten of the HIV-positive

children are taking AIDS medicine. 36

children sleep in a room that measures 22' X 24'. These are the lucky

children as they have malaria nets. There are nine bunk beds in the

room and two children sleep on each very thin mattress. Note the

mattress on the left. Sunday,

December 30th, 2008, the M. Brodsky Foundation sponsored a

dinner for 275 orphans at Reach Out Orphans Support Center. This was

the second year the dinner was at Reach Out.Picture

below is and Jodi Brodsky serving dinner to the orphans at

Reach-Out. Our host, Hezekiah Nyaranga cares for the 350 orphans during

the day and the orphans return home in the evening so the state cannot

take away their land.It

was very difficult raising money for this year's marathon and orphan

dinners but Jodi and I decided it was important for us to run the

marathon and let the orphans know that we represent people in America

who really do care about the orphans in Africa. If you've already given

a donation to the M. Brodsky Foundation, thank you very much.

It is not too late to make your donation now.

My Kenyan Board Members have suggested for next year we plan projects

based on sustainability. For example, in addition to the orphan

dinners, we could provide seed for orphanages to grow their own produce

and if they show good results, we could fund these orphanages on an

annual basis. Naturally this will depend on donations.

Special thanks to a lot of people

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I

would like to thank President-Elect Barack Obama; President Clinton;

, former United Nations Special Envoy for HIV / AIDS in

Africa; Senator Ted Kennedy; Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy; Nassau

County Executive Tom Suozzi; and Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate

Murray for their support for the Foundation's work which includes its

annual World AIDS Marathon held in Kisumu, Kenya as well as the 5k AIDS

/ Cancer / Survive / Run / Walk in America. These letters can be viewed

by visiting the website link, view letters. The American Medical Student Association, AMSA, has also created a story line of the Foundation's work which can be viewed by read about .

The One Campaign has also been very supportive of my work. If you are

interested in hearing me speak and seeing photos of the Foundation's

work in America, the One Campaign and the American Medical Student

Association have covered my speaking fee in the past.

ABOUT THE FOUNDATION

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Foundation donates money

to various AIDS projects in Kenya, AIDS and cancer research projects in

America and to organizations providing aid to people living with HIV

and cancer. To make a donation to the M. Brodsky Foundation you

can mail a check to the Foundation's address, M. Brodsky

Foundation, 1247 Mara Court, Atlantic Beach, NY 11509, USA, or visit

the Foundation website and click on the PayPal donate link. Alternately you can make your donation via the World AIDS Marathon website,

by clicking on the Donate link. A $100 donation will entitle you or

your company to have your name on the 2008 World AIDS Marathon

commemorative t-shirt and a $250 donation will entitle you to a logo on

the shirt. In addition, the shirt will be mailed to you. For further

details about the 2008 World AIDS Marathon you can visit the World AIDS Marathon website

For more info about the Foundation's mission and the World AIDS Marathon, please visit Foundation website & World AIDS Marathon website. There are some great photos of the 2007, 2006 and 2004 World AIDS Marathon which can be viewed by visiting photos 2007, photos 2006 and photos 2004.

Save the date, June 21, 2009~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The

M. Brodsky Foundation will be sponsoring its second annual 5k

AIDS Cancer Run Walk in Cedar Creek Park on June 21, 2009. Last year

the Foundation donated $11,500 in toys, gift items, toiletry items to

children living with pediatric cancer at Schneider Children's Hospital,

gift / toiletry items to breast cancer survivors at Nassau University

Medical Center, and gift / toiletry items to people living with HIV who

were clients of Long Island Minority AIDS Coalition, Long Island

Association for AIDS Care, and Planned Parenthood of Nassau County. In

addition, there were over $2,000 in give-away prizes.

(photo, courtesy of Mike Polansky of the Greater Long Island Running Club)

Please

consider making your annual contribution to the M. Brodsky

Foundation as the Foundation's work has become my life's work. The

foundation also sponsored its first 5k AIDS Cancer Survive Run Walk

in Seaford, Long Island on June 22, 2008 and will be sponsoring another

5k Event on June 21, 2009. There are no other Presidents of Foundations

who are HIV-positive and have brain cancer whose main fundraising

activity consists of running marathons. But if running marathons can

help raise awareness that hundreds of thousand lives can be saved each

year if access to the AIDS medicine is free for people who cannot

afford the AIDS medicine, then I have no choice but to continue running

marathons.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We are always looking for volunteers so if you've managed to read

this entire newsletter, we could really use your help. Please contact

me, , at the contact information below.

M. Brodsky Foundation

1247 Mara Court

Atlantic Beach,NY 11509

Contact: Brodsky

Phone: (516) 770-7724 (516) 432-1254

E-Mail: M.Brodsky@...

Very Truly Yours,

Brodsky,

M. Brodsky, President of M. Brodsky Foundation

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://www.worldaidsmarathon.com marathon website

http://www.richardmbrodsky.org foundation website

http://trebloon.com book website

http://www.5kAIDScancer.com 5k run in America website

Contact Information

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~phone: 516-770-7724 or M.Brodsky@...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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