28th Annual Race Against Violence

On Saturday, March 5, 2016, the Houston Area Women’s Center will host its 28th annual Race Against Violence, presented by Verizon.

This event includes a competitive 5K run and walk, a Kids Fun Run, and a post-race Family Festival on the AIG Campus at Whole Foods – Montrose.

It’s also a chance for the community to join together and let survivors of domestic and sexual violence know that they are not alone.

More than 3,000 people took part in the 2015 Race Against Violence and raised more than $284,000 to support the Houston Area Women’s Center’s mission.

Since 1977, the Women’s Center has provided shelter and support services for survivors of domestic and sexual violence as well as violence prevention education to the community at large. The Race Against Violence serves as one of the agency’s major community outreach efforts and fundraising events and enables the Center to offer all of its services free of charge.

The 5K race will begin promptly at 8:00 a.m. in front of the Houston Area Women’s Center (located at 1010 Waugh Dr.), and the Kids Fun Run will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m.

$500 cash prizes will be awarded to overall and masters winners, female and male, $250 cash prizes to second place finishers, and $50 Luke’s Locker gift certificates to third place finishers. Every Kids Fun Run participant will receive a finisher’s medal.