Black Girls RUN!/Drive to End Hunger 5K/10K Race :: Atlantic Station :: ATL, GA, USA [Sep.16.2012]

Great day. Great race. Great attendance. Great Weather. GREAT TIME. This INAUGURAL race was a chance to help tackle food insecurity in a different way. BGR and AARP! hosted the inaugural BGR!/Drive to End Hunger 5K/10K Race Weekend in Atlanta, Georgia, September 14-16, 2012. The event brought greater awareness to the nationwide efforts of organizations' Black Girls RUN! and AARP to fight obesity and hunger respectively. While food insecurity plagues the United States, our country is also waging war against the highest obesity rates our nation has ever seen. Black Girls RUN! and AARP believes that everyone deserves the right to have healthy, nutritional food available at all times. Leading up to the race, Black Girls RUN! and AARP collected donations from participants, volunteers and the public. The organizations worked to collect 100,000 pounds of food to be donated to Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless in Atlanta.