Students of the Year Northwest Arkansas
Meera Arunkumar | What's Your Move?
Welcome to Meera Arunkumar's SOY Fundraising Page!
I am honored to participate as a team member 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. I am proud to be running as a candidate and raising funds in honor of our young patient heroes Annabelle and Kendryck who are currently battling or are 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 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.
I have known since I was ten years old that I wanted to make a direct difference in peoples' lives. I wanted to rid the world of pain, so I set my sights on being a doctor-- more specifically-- a pediatrician. Children especially shouldn't have to go through such painful endeavors as cancer, so this is my move towards finding better treatments and, hopefully, cures for cancer.
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!
This is Our Move-- What's Yours?
For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org.
13 Comments
Jaiganesh Ramadoss
Lets support the global community
Hemalatha Ramasamy
I pray that this diseases can go away in future.
Vanadhi Kannan
Good Effort Meera.
Carrie Dawes
We support you Meera as well as your wonderful cause!
hayot tuychiev
Way to go Meera! Very proud of your achievements and kind heart!
Bandana Batra
keep up the good work Meera
Prem Kaliaperumal
Good work, Meera.
Pradeep Durai
Good effort Meera, praying everyone get well soon. x
Mohamed Abbas
Great work! Wish you the best!
Senthil RP
Good initiative Meera, take care
Varsha Ragavendran
Great cause, best of luck! - Hema Ragavendran
Thirumurugan Venkatachalapathy
Great work Meera. All the best!
Anonymous
Prayers for a full recovery for the patient(s) or recovering patient(s). best wishes for this effort to make a positive impact.