Boston Getting Ready For This Year's Mother's Day Walk For Peace

BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Boston is preparing for this year's Mother's Day Walk for Peace to honor the lives of people impacted by homicide.

The annual walk is the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute's largest fundraising event, with proceeds going towards families for medical, mental, and practical support. Organizers are hoping to raise $600,000 in funds by the time the walk kicks off on Sunday, May 14 at Town Field Park in Dorchester.

For the walk's 27th outing, its theme is "Cultivating Cycles of Peace."

"All of you are here because in some way, shape, or form, you’ve answered the call to interrupt cycles of violence," Institute Co-Executive Director Alexandra Chéry Dorrelus said Wednesday at a community briefing at The Hampshire House. "And in that interruption, it is our responsibility to put something in its place."

"This is the only event in the city where you put your feet to action," Mayor Michelle Wu said. "Just being in that mass of people kicking it off in the beginning is in itself healing."

The Mother's Day Walk for Peace began in 1996, two years after the founding of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. Joseph and Clementina Chéry co-founded the institute to honor the legacy of their son Louis Brown, who was killed in a fatal crossfire shootout near his home in Dorchester in Dec. 1993.

WBZ's James Rojas (@JamesRojasNews) reports.

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