by Francesca Operti
My name is Francesca, and I am the Programme Coordinator at the EWL. I started running when my mum was diagnosed with cancer ten years ago to cope with fear, sadness, and anger. I hope this run will make a difference for children suffering from this awful disease and their families. I agree with my mum when she says that cancer is always a tragedy, but when it happens to kids, that is a terrible injustice. In her endless and painful medical path, we realised that doctors often lack answers and sometimes even treatments. We should all do our part to support research so that little patients and their families can be better supported. Join us and chip in with whatever you can: the ocean is made of drops!
— Francesca
We have a mission. A beautiful mission. We want to cure every child with cancer.
Find new treatments, improve existing ones, and kick children’s cancer to send it far, far away forever and may it never come back! We therefore financially support scientific research, and bring together the drive, inspiration and knowledge of everyone involved. From researchers, doctors and parents to politicians and pharmaceutical companies. Only a joint effort can ensure that children with cancer are cured and better cured.
Thanks to our generous sponsors, 100% of the funds raised by you will finance innovative research projects selected thanks to the European FIGHT KIDS CANCER initiative.
FIGHT KIDS CANCER is a European call for projects that we launched together with Imaginefor Margo (France) and Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner (Luxembourg).
Our second FIGHT KIDS CANCER call for projects lead to the selection, by independent international experts, of 5 new innovative research projects of European scope for a total amount of 3,45 million euros of which KickCancer will finance 800 000 €. Through these projects, we hope to foster improvements in the knowledge and treatment of the following diseases: B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (clinical trial), ewing's sarcomas (clinical trial), medulloblastomas (translational project), neuroblastomas (2 translational projects).
There is ONE EXTRA project we would love to tell you more about… but we need to raise more funds than initially planned. Are you in to help us reach one million euros to fund this mystery project?
Good luck everyone (and Alexia specifically, hope you're doing well ☺️), thank you for your commitment! Bonne course!
🫶🫶🫶💪💪💪 Magnifique cause! Bon courage à toutes ❤️
Good luck Alexia!!
You're doing a fantastic work! Good luck with the run!💪
You go girls!💪💪💪
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