Teens Run DC empowers at-risk youth to envision and work towards the achievement of personal goals through a youth mentoring and distance running program. Over an academic year, TRDC Running Leaders, Mentors, and Friends challenge and guide these youth to develop the skills necessary to achieve their running goals and their life goals… MORE
Teens Run DC purchased charity race bibs for the sold out Marine Corps Marathon. After one month, we now have 27 runners training for the marathon and committed to raising funds for Teens Run DC. We still have a few race bibs left.
David is an 18-year-old young man from El Salvador, the next to youngest of 12 children. When he first came to this country at age 11, he along with five of his brothers and sisters and his mother and father, lived...
Meili is an 18 year old senior at Wilson who joined Teens Run DC a little late in the season. In the fall, she participated in Wilson’s Women’s Varsity Volleyball Team. Meili says that after the volleyball season ended, she wanted...
Dagnechew is a gentle and soft-spoken 16 year old, tenth grader at Wilson High School. He came to this country 4 years ago with his sister. Prior to leaving Ethiopia, he lived with his mother and aunt in a...