[su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pftRqCSDaG0&feature=youtu.be”]

Earlier this year Channel Kindness Reporter, Reanna Zappavigna, attended the 21 st annual Ride for Missing Children in Central NY. Learn more about why and how this annual event means so much to families across America.

The Ride for Missing Children started with just seven and has now grown to 500 riders, 150 volunteers, and numerous family members of missing children. The 2017 ride raised over $300,000 to keep children safe and make them safer one child at a time. The goal is to spread awareness about missing children, about child safety, and keeping hope for the families of missing children.

Known as the biggest fundraiser for the Central New York Branch of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the ride is composed of long-time riders, local businesses, schools, and organizations. Funds go directly toward missing children community education programs and the posters featuring the missing children from all over the state. The local branch in Utica is the only geographically targeted poster distribution center in the United States. The posters printed there are sent to locations, which have been strategically identified as areas where children and their abductors may be found.

For more information check out:
http://www.missingkids.com/Home