The Edison High School football program, which also participated in the event and made a generous donation to The Marisa Tufaro Foundation, joined the nursing students in collecting nonperishable food items for Hands of Hope.Įntering this year's event, race director Stephen Dennis told the Home News Tribune the Race to Outrun Hunger has raised more than $60,000 since its inception. READ: Central Jersey's Caring Community in action READ: Middlesex High School works with Tufaro Foundation on coat drive The 5K benefited Hands of Hope, an Edison-based nonprofit committed to providing an efficient and centralized system for distributing food to alleviate hunger in the Middlesex County area. Hands of Hope provided more than 9,400 meals to children, women and men last year. Zayas and her classmates from the Chamberlain College of Nursing in North Brunswick were among the approximately 120 people who joined The Marisa Tufaro Foundation’s team of runners and walkers in the fourth annual Race to Outrun Hunger at Roosevelt Park on Sunday. Moved by the story of a teenage girl she never met, Heather Zayas, a nursing student, was inspired to help make a difference in the lives of others. Watch Video: Tufaro Foundation Race to Outrun Hunger
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