Student Visionaries of the Year Fresno

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Team's Student Visionaries of the Year Fundraiser

Feb 15, 2023

Dear Friends and Family,  

We are honored to say that we, Diego Castro and Hailey Dearing, are co-candidates for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS)  Student of the Year campaign. We are writing today to ask for your support in our efforts to help LLS in its mission to ensure access to cures and treatments for blood cancers. We are competing with several other Student of the Year candidates in the surrounding Fresno, CA. area. Despite our competition with other teams, we as a whole hope to put our best fundraising foot forward in honor of all those fighting blood cancer.    

Millions of families across the world have been affected by the unforgiving brutality and reality of cancer. Millions more have joined the fight to put a stop to this disease. We are not the exception. We, in our own families, both personally know someone who has had or has the disease and have witnessed the toll the disease takes on everyone's body. Our campaign is in honor of our honored hero, Natalia Reyes, who at 2 years old, was diagnosed with pre-B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She fought hard for 2 years, and is at 4 years old today, finally in the last recovery stage of her fight.  

While childhood leukemia has the highest cure rate of any blood cancer, it is also still the number-one disease killer among children under the age of 20. This needs to change, and we know that as we come together and partner with LLS we will find a cure, not someday, but today! Here is how you can be part of the cure…  

Our campaign to be the Student of the Year is all about dollars raised and we are asking you today to join us in this ambitious campaign. We have until April 21st 2023, to reach our goal of raising $75,000. Please send all checks to 7491 N. Remington Ave Suite 101 Fresno ca 93711 or donate right here on this webpage, while following along with our adventure.

Your donation will prevent someone from losing a child, sibling, parent or loved one, and allow LLS to continue funding lifesaving research. Please reach out to others you know and ask them to contribute as well. We have  found that so many of the people we talk to have a connection to blood cancer and want to support LLS.   

We want to thank you in advance for your generous support.   

Sincerely,  

Diego A. Castro, and Hailey E. Dearing 

2023 Student Visionary of the Year candidates  

PS: Make your donation go further and check to see if your company matches donations! 

 

 

3 Comments

  • J.R. Simplot Company

    Good job Diego!

  • J.R Simplot

    My prayers for Natalia Reyes and any other human being that has to battle this awful disease.

  • Mike Smith

    Castro

Contact us by email or call 888.LLS.7177.