September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month and league wide teams are raising money and awareness for MLS’s Kick Childhood Cancer campaign.
In addition to other fundraisers, the Philadelphia Union is participating in Alex’s Million Mile challenge, a month-long awareness campaign created through the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.
For the entire month of September, a team formed of Union staff members and First Team members, will log as many miles as they can either by walking, running, biking, or swimming. The final hope is that all teams participating nation-wide will log one million miles in efforts to spread awareness of the amount of miles families drive every day for their children’s cancer treatments.