JFK Rotary Club 5K Runway Run - Jamaica, New York - Running

The JFK Rotary Club 5K Runway Run is a Running race in Jamaica, New York consisting of a 5K.

The Run on the Runway race has become one of the major fundraisers for the JFK Rotary Club. Funds raised from the race are used to support scholarships, sponsor terminally ill children from countries with limited medical and technological services, for life-saving heart operations at local hospitals through Rotary's Gift of Life Program, sponsors annual Christmas parties for handicapped children from the local schools (including Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf, Mill Neck, NY) which is held in the Delta passenger terminal at JFK Airport. For example, the 2005 Christmas party was attended by over 300 children. Sponsors included Delta Airlines, Host Restaurants, North Fork Bank and others.