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For participating in 2019 Toronto Sporting Life 10k

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Please donate or join our team to come run from Marky! Let's give his mom Heidi a Mother's Day to remember. On May 12th, 2019 lets have a sea of people running for Marky! Moms, dads, sisters, brothers, grandparents lets all come out and run! Marky's Story: On May 21st 2016, sweet Marky was diagnosed with Leukemia. He has fought hard through too many months of intense rounds of chemo. After relapsing in the summer he underwent a bone marrow transplant this past fall. On March 22nd, 2019 the day after Marky's 5th birthday, they got the worst possible news that Marky's cancer has returned and so the fight continues.

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Help send kids affected by childhood cancer to Camp Ooch!

A diagnosis of childhood cancer is a big, scary, sudden swerve in the road, changing life in an instant. 

For affected families, it can feel like everything is about cancer. Simple, childhood joys like friendships, birthday parties, or sports teams are left behind in the need for medical appointments, hospital stays, and long absences from school.

For over 35 years, Camp Ooch has offered a different path – the healing power of fun, friendship and self-confidence, and the joy of kids getting to just be kids! 

Often referred to as the social cure for cancer, Ooch provides programming at an overnight camp in Muskoka, at SickKids in Toronto, in specialized paediatric centres and in communities across Ontario. Camp Ooch is the only overnight camp in Canada to offer onsite IV chemotherapy and blood transfusions. 

Camp Ooch is a privately funded, volunteer-based organization that relies exclusively on the generous support of fundraisers, corporate donors and individuals, like you.

Ooch changes the lives of over 1,500 kids affected by childhood cancer every year. However, almost 80% of kids with cancer in Ontario don’t have access to the wonders of camp. You can help change that.

Cancer changes a child's life.  So does Camp.  And so can you.

Team members

Click on one of our team members below to make a donation.

Recent donors

Donation date Donor name Donation amount
May 12 Jennifer Ritter Congratulations and Happy Mother’s Day! Team Ritter Undisclosed amount
May 12 Richard and Shauna Markowitz Great work! $193.79
May 12 Andrew Bratt $50.00
May 12 Jen & Nathan $54.24
May 12 Michelle Diamond Have a great run!! Love you Jo- Undisclosed amount
May 12 Jamie & Zachary Schwartz In honour of supermom Heidi on Mother’s Day...Wishing Marky a brighter future filled with good health, the best gift of all. $107.91
May 12 Anonymous $320.34
May 12 Jessica Jacobson Good luck tomorrow Em! Hopefully I will see you xoxo $100.00
May 12 Laurie Martin Undisclosed amount
May 11 The Greenspans In honour of Marky and Heidi xo Have a great run Caryn and team! Undisclosed amount