Running 24 Hours for the Kids the War Left Behind

In May 2000, I left a small mountain village called Rijeka in Bosnia. I was a kid. I got out.

The war in Yugoslavia didn't care if you were Bosnian, Serbian, or Croatian or what you believed in. Neither did the poverty it left behind. Children on every side grew up without fathers, without shoes for school, without a chance — not because of anything they did, but because war came for them before they were old enough to understand it.

I'm running 24 hours straight at White Lake Ultra (https://www.aravaiparunning.com/white-mountain-endurance/white-lake-ultras/) to send something back to those kids. All of them. Every dollar goes directly to families in need — handed to them personally by a family member I trust on the ground. No charity. No overhead. No middleman. Just someone who remembers where he came from.

I will post updates as the money reaches families. You will see where every dollar goes.

We all suffered. This is for all of us.

Thank you for running this with me — even if you're sitting down.

— Miko