Students of the Year Birmingham
Elina Shah | Elina Shah's Campaign Team
Welcome to Elina Shah's SOY Fundraising Page!
We are honored to participate as a team for the 2020 Students of the Year program, a seven-week initiative in which select high school students from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. We are proud to support our candidate and are raising critical dollars in honor of a young patient hero who is currently battling or is in remission from a blood cancer. Our team name is Mighty Maya in honor of Elina's sister, Maya, a childhood leukemia survivor. Each dollar is a vote. The candidate team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year. Our mission is to not only raise the most money but also to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens.
Since the early 1960s, five-year survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are helping patients with other cancers and serious diseases. In fact, drugs first approved for blood cancers are now approved to treat patients with stomach cancers, skin cancers, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.
We really are changing the face of blood cancer!
All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. They'll not only support LLS-funded research but will help provide critical information and support for patients, and support advocacy for laws to ensure patients can access the care and treatments they need.
Please visit our website often and bring friends who would also like to donate!
On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere, thank you for your support!
For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org.
22 Comments
Sally Henin
Way to Go Elina! Best of Luck.
Lucinda Hauer
Congratulations Maya for staying so strong and thank you Elina for all you are doing!!!!! Y’all are amazing💕💕💕
Hiral and Vijay Yalamanchili
Go team Mighty Maya! Good luck with the campaign Elina!
Barry and Denise Willingham
ROCK ON ELINA !!!!! We are so proud of you and Maya - all our love !!!
Veneesa Yow
Well done Elina!
Dawn Massop Love and Family
Outstanding Mighty Maya. Sisterhood never looked so beautiful. Congrats on your efforts.
Sarah Moody
This is for Elina Shah's Student of the Year competition! Go, Elina! Go, Maya!
Cassandra Newsom
In memory of Terrell Finney https://ccmpr.wordpress.com/2020/01/23/in-memoriam-ccm-professor-emeritus-r-terrell-finney-jr And in honor of Maya Khatri and her remarkable family.
Laurie Lorino
Way to go, Elina! #mightymaya
Shweta Poladia
We are so thankful that Maya is healthy and well today, with the help of a wonderful medical team and prayers and love from family and friends. Wishing you all the best, Elina, and your team, Mighty Maya, in your efforts to raise more awareness and help fund research and find cures for blood cancers. We love you and are so proud of you!
Anola and Mitchell Ennis
so very proud of Elina and her work to honor her sister Maya in this fight with Leukemia.
Elizabeth Macklem
So proud of you and best of luck in your fundraising efforts! Love, The Macklems
Raphael and Staci
Elina, We are proud of you!!! Love, Raphael and Staci Pierce
Cathy Turner
Happy to support your family in this journey!
Beena Shah
Keep it up Kiddo.
Snehal Khatri
On behalf of Maliea Box
Shayne News
Happy to support you Elina!!
Laura Esposito
You rock! Keep up the amazing work, your heart is an inspiration!
Ren family
Proud of you, Elina!
Elise Mardis
Way to go Elina!
The Bakers
Thank you for doing this!
Geeta Jasani
Way to go Elina!