Students of the Year Los Angeles
Kelli Samartin | Zero to Hero
Welcome to Kelli Samartin's SOY Fundraising Page!
I am honored to participate in the 2019 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. I am proud to be raising critical dollars in honor of a young patient hero who is currently battling or is in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote. The candidate team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student(s) 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.
12 Comments
Alix Reeves
Thank you, Kelli, for honoring your Uncle Michael in such a beautiful and meaningful way. I love you!
Carolyn and Rich
Congratulations Kelli on your outstanding work. Keeping the Reeves family in our hearts.
Cynthia Reeves Birney
My brother Michael died of acute myelogenous leukemia in 2000 -- this is a wonderful, heartfelt way to honor his untimely passing. Thank you.
Eric & Nancy Reeves
Remembering Michael Reeves with our gift and celebrating all the advances that have been made in the treatment of Leukemia and Lymphoma in the last decade. May the great progress continue. Eric & Nancy Reeves
John Thompson
Thanks for doing this Kelli!! Mike would be very proud of the amazing woman you are becoming.
Denise Andrews
Thank you, Kelli Samartin, for working hard for such a worthy cause!
Anonymous
This is a fabulous Cause, continue with this great work, beautifull Kelli. Love you Jennie
Cecilia Samartin
May God bless all your efforts, Kelli.
Anonymous
Love and blessings
Clive and Shereen Kelly
Also in memory of your Uncle Mike! <3<3
Michelle & Josh Quinones
Wonderful cause, Kelli!
Ibarra Family
Great job Kelli! Ibarra Family