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For participating in Sporting Life 10k Virtual Run

Jess MacInnis

Raised: $2,751.99
Goal: $2,000.00
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Ooch Dream Team

Total raised: $34,816.68

Goal: $20,000.00

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Help me raise money to send kids with cancer to #CampOoch through the #SL10K https://raceroster.com/events/2020/27499/sporting-life-10k-virtual-run/pledge/participant/7651214

My Story…

For the past couple of years I've been a volunteer at Camp Ooch — I go up to Ooch Muskoka for a week in the summer and help out at their Ooch Downtown site throughout the year. I originally decided to volunteer because I thought I could make the lives of children affected by cancer better. Turns out, they've made my life better. From canoeing to archery, and from waterski to woodshop, I've laughed my way through each day, hour and activity with some amazing kids and co-counsellors. If you're not convinced that this is a special place, I'd love to tell you more about my experience with Ooch and the impact the organization has on kids with cancer. If you are convinced... I'd love your support in helping me to reach my fundraising goal to send a kid with cancer to camp for a week. Thank you to everyone who has supported me over the past few years I've been doing this. You are my favourite people.

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Kids affected by childhood cancer still need the chance to just be kids!

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 powers 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 1,900 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.

We still run for Ooch!

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Recent donors

Donation date Donor name Donation amount
Jun 01 Kelly Hayward $54.24
May 31 Megan MacLean $43.50
May 17 Anonymous Undisclosed amount
May 05 RSA Canada $107.91
May 02 Madeline Trenholm $107.91
Apr 30 Kate and Sean Howes Way to go Jess! $107.91
Apr 30 John & Carolyn MacIsaac $161.58
Apr 30 Billy MacInnis Go Auntie Jessie! $107.91
Apr 03 Anthony Sestito Way to go Duff! For the Kids! $54.24
Mar 19 Sarah Smart $54.24