PMC Kids

Kids are the future. The Pan-Mass Challenge has embraced this ubiquitous statement and is cultivating the next generation of PMC riders. The PMC kids rides (there will be 24 kids rides this year throughout Massachusetts and in New Hampshire and New York) involve thousands of children (aged 3-15) who ride their bikes various distances at a kids ride event and raise money for cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Insititute. Last year, almost 3,500 kid riders raised over $465,000 for the Jimmy Fund, contributing to the PMC's $33 million donation. Since the first PMC Kids Ride in 1998, the kids rides have contributed nearly $1 million to the PMC's goal. These kids are amazing.

Just like in the "adult" PMC, the kid riders have loved ones - uncles, mothers, grandfathers, sisters - who are battling or have battled cancer. These kids know what they're doing - they're helping to make sick people feel better and to make sure others don't get sick.

Billy Starr, PMC Founder and Executive Director, recently made this statement about the kids rides: "Children are no longer as shielded from illness, injury, and other aspects of real life that can be painful or upsetting. Kids continue to surprise all of us, all the time. They want to be involved, they want to contribute, and we believe that children, just like adults, become healthier, more complete people because they participate."

Click here to watch a video about the Kids Rides.