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For participating in 2019 Toronto Sporting Life 10k

Jess MacInnis

Raised: $2,128.82
Goal: $2,000.00
100.00% raised
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Help me raise money to send kids with cancer to #CampOoch through the #SL10K https://raceroster.com/events/2019/19641/2019-toronto-sporting-life-10k/pledge/participant/4634719

My Story…

I had such a blast being a cabin counsellor at Camp Ooch this summer and spent a week with an amazing group of campers. Together we swam, sang, water skied, canoed — I even lost a bet during our archery activity and had to lick a worm. I thought I had a lot to give as a counsellor but ended getting so much from the experience instead. Your donation doesn't just help send kids affected by childhood cancers to camp — it allows kids with cancer to just be kids. I've set my most ambitious fundraising goal to date: $2000. If the sheer exhaustion on my face while running 10K in this photo doesn't encourage you to give, I hope the thought of a kid trying s'mores for the first time, or climbing to the top of a ropes course, or doing a polar bear dip this summer will. Thank you!

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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.

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Recent donors

Donation date Donor name Donation amount
May 11 Kelly steen Good luck tomorrow dragging me over the finish line! :) Undisclosed amount
May 11 Melanie Duhamel Jess, congrats on meeting your fundraising goal--amazing! Thanks for helping make this a fun ECE thing :) Good luck tomorrow! Undisclosed amount
Apr 22 Kevin Go ahead and touch those kids! Undisclosed amount
Apr 20 Adriana Iacobelli Undisclosed amount
Apr 20 Siobhan Wilson Go Jess go! $13.26
Apr 20 Kelly Hayward Run, Jess, run! Undisclosed amount
Apr 19 Lesley Cordeiro $22.03
Apr 19 Jerry Nadarajah $22.03
Apr 11 Melody Khodaverdian Go, Jess, Go! Cheering you on and hope you have an amazing race! Xoxo $107.91
Apr 10 Lorrie Morris $54.24