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For participating in Sporting Life 10k Virtual Run

Team Lara 2020

Raised: $2,045.85
Goal: $2,000.00
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Our story

For our 2nd year running the Sporting Life 10k, we have asked some very special friends to join Team Lara to help raise funds for one of Lara’s very dearest of places, Camp Oochigeas. Since her diagnosis at age 2, Camp Ooch has come to mean so much to our whole family. This year the Sporting Life 10k has gone “virtual” as kids and families affected by childhood cancer still need the magic of camp experience in these unprecedented times. These kids’ lives were turned upside down before this pandemic began, and their isolation has only deepened now. In spite of everything, kids still have cancer—and those kids still need our help. So friends, we will be running the 10k in May and recording our activities on Strava. With so many facing financial pressure, rest assured that even small amounts like $5 or $10 are most welcome. Here's a link to Lara singing with her Ooch friends for this year's 10k. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLVIHN-v0vo Thanks for helping.

Description

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 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 1,800 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!

Team members

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

Recent donors

Donation date Donor name Donation amount
Apr 29 Anonymous $54.24
Apr 28 Graham Sanders Team Lara 加油 ! $54.24
Apr 28 Adam Stevens $54.24
Apr 28 Raywat Deonandan $54.24
Apr 28 Robin Wagner $27.41
Apr 27 Beatriz and Cary Hey Captain Lara, Thanks for being such a great person. We are sure that walking Ollie has got you in terrific shape. You are the best! $54.24
Apr 23 Anonymous Undisclosed amount
Feb 28 John Laing $107.91
Feb 25 Daniel Peel Undisclosed amount
Feb 19 Colin Campbell Mark, I know you can handle the 10K but just in case good luck. $27.41