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Why I'm taking part in RBC Race for the Kids
When I was pregnant with my first child, my brother and his wife were raising a happy family — a three-year-old and a newborn baby. Just a month later, we received the devastating news that their three-year-old son had leukaemia. It was the first time I had come face to face with this terrible disease.
My nephew spent the following year in hospital, always accompanied by his mum, while the rest of our family did everything we could to support them. It was heartbreaking to watch him suffer and to witness other children in pain, knowing that all we could do was hope and trust the doctors.
Last year, when a Russian missile hit Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, a place where so many children with cancer are treated, that familiar feeling of helplessness returned. It reminded me how fragile and unfair life can be, especially for children fighting this horrible disease.
Childhood cancer is a nightmare no family should ever have to experience. If there is any way to reduce the suffering, to bring even a little comfort or hope to these brave children and their families, we must do it.
I’m running to support GOSH Charity because they give that hope. Please support us if you can.
RBC Race for the Kids 2025
GOSH already cares for children with the hardest to treat cancers, and new treatments are giving hope to children and their families. But these advances have outstripped GOSH's current cancer facilities.
We need a new home for breakthrough treatments and pioneering research, so we can save more children's lives. And because cancer shouldn't get to steal anyone's childhood, we need a place that's more than a hospital – a place that's a school, a playground, a garden, and so much more.
Please consider sponsoring me. Together, we can build it. Together, we can help beat childhood cancer.
