International Day of Families
How does YOUR support help?
Today marks the International Day of Families.
On this special day, we want to say THANK YOU for being a part of the GCC community and supporting families impacted by cancer. 🙏
Every year, more than 1,700 Canadian families receive the heartbreaking news, "your child has cancer".
But your support in Great Cycle Challenge is giving these families hope that safer and more effective treatments can be found to fight kids' cancer and save little lives. ❤️
Today, we want to show how your fundraising efforts have helped a courageous little girl and her family...
Iris was diagnosed with refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in June 2022, when she was only 3 years old.
Over the past 3 years I have participated in the Great Cycle Challenge Canada. With your support we have helped Canadian children, and their families as they fight cancer. Children just like Iris should be outside playing, not in hospital fighting for their little lives.
That is why I have participated.
Year #1 I was too weak from years of treatments to make much impact.
Year #2 I had a bladder tumor removed and then in the middle of the official Great Cycle Challenge Canada I was in hospital to have a kidney removed.
Year #3 I rode from Canmore Alberta over the mountains to Vancouver. I also had another tumor removed from my urethra when I got home.
This is Year #4. Let's make it a cancer free year as I try to ride 500km through the month of August, and raise $2500 to help kids like Iris.
