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Help Sarah raise money

For participating in Sporting Life 10k - Toronto 2017

Help me raise money to send kids with cancer to #CampOoch through the #SL10K https://raceroster.com/events/2017/6186/sporting-life-10k-toronto-2017/pledge/participant/2091220

My Story…

I am participating in the 2017 Sporting Life 10k #SL10K to send kids with and affected by cancer to Camp Oochigeas (Ooch). To reach my fundraising goal, I need your help! This will be my fourth year participating in this run. Our team is named Mighty Mateja after the strength of my friend's little girl. Mateja was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma at 5 months old She had a large tumour on her adrenal glands, cancer in her bones and bone marrow. She spent 5 months on the 8th floor of Sick Kids with her parents, Ivana and Tommy. She received numerous blood transfusions, pokes, scans and tests. She endured complications where her little body would swell up as the tumour enclosed and pressed on her vessels. She was unable to eat and received liquid nutrition via a port. The volunteers from both Sick Kids and Camp Ooch would visit her room daily to put a smile on her face as well as her mothers. I am happy to report that today, Mateja is a healthy five-year old! She is in her fourth year of being cancer free. Camp Ooch is privately funded and staffed entirely by volunteers and is completely FREE to children that are suffering from cancer. They provide numerous programs at Sick Kids that Mateja gets to enjoy every time she has a visit at the Cancer Clinic. Their camps are located in Muskoka where kids just get to be kids. It is where a child gets to forget about their illness and just enjoy their life by having fun! Cancer changes a child's life, but so does Camp.

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Help send kids affected by cancer to Camp Ooch!

Camp Oochigeas (Ooch) provides children with and affected by childhood cancer with what they need most – the chance to be a kid. Ooch is the only residential camp in Ontario to offer on-site IV chemotherapy and blood transfusions providing access to campers in active treatment the friendship and fun of Camp. Operating 365 days a year, Ooch offers programs at a residential camp in Muskoka, at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), three other regional cancer centres and at Ooch Downtown in the heart of Toronto.

As a registered charity that receives no government funding, Ooch relies exclusively on the generous support of fundraisers, individual and corporate donors like you.


Achievements

Recent donors

Donation date Donor name Donation amount
May 12 Rachel Runge Undisclosed amount
May 08 Michele Koumbari So proud of you, tutz!!! You will rock it $60.00
May 03 Janson Storring $125.00
Apr 24 Lorrie and Paul Runge Proud of you. XXOO $50.00
Apr 19 Lasagna Lunch Fundraiser $210.00
Apr 18 Jennifer Berry $25.00
Apr 15 MELISSA DAVIS Undisclosed amount
Apr 07 Kate Hood Run Sarah Run ?! Undisclosed amount
Mar 30 Alexzandra Nehring Good luck Sarah! You truly do make a difference in the world! :) $30.00
Mar 29 Jennifer Deacon Good luck, Sarah, to you and the rest of the team xoxo!! $25.00