Hello! My name is Maria Papas and I am a Junior at Justice High School in Falls Church, VA. This is my first year participating in LLS and I couldn't be more excited to be apart of such a great group. As someone who has lost a grandfather to Leukemia, I want nothing more than to help others in finding a cure for blood cancers. Along with being a part of LLS, I am the president of the Best Buddies Club, a member of the National Honors Society, Spanish Honors Society, and Key Club. I am also a student-athlete and play varsity field hockey, track, and soccer.

I am asking for YOUR help. Please consider donating to my fundraising campaign so we can help find a cure for blood cancer and support those who need help financially while fighting blood cancer. 

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page and I hope you will donate to this amazing cause!!

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

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