Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

My name is Samuel Cutinho and I'm a Junior at the Latin School of Chicago in Chicago, IL. I am honoured that you visited my page and I encourage you to read through this fundraising letter detailing my reason for participating in this campaign and LLS's mission to cure cancer. 

I'm participating in the Students of the Year Fundraiser to raise money for cancer research. I have seen leukemia take a terrible toll on ones body and mental health and impact family and friends. To make a difference, I am striving to do as much as possible to help out and raise as much as possible for cancer research to ensure that there are less and less fatalities per year.

I wasn’t as aware of leukemia until late last year when I attended the funeral for Matt D’souza, a family member of mine. He was diagnosed in 2013 and sadly passed away last year, at the young age of 29, after a long battle with cancer.

Additionally, one of my tennis coaches and dear friend of mine, Joey Salerno, has been going through a lot of pain in his fight against leukemia and I’m doing this to help people like Joey, whose lives have been devastated by cancer.

I encourage you to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. My appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion, and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org