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My name is Kendra (KC) Soewandi, and I am a candidate for the Falcons Fight Back Team in this year's 2021 Students of the Year (SOY) Campaign. I attend Our Lady of Good Counsel High School as a junior, and I enjoy hanging out with my friends and family as well as playing lacrosse. 

 I am beyond excited to be granted the amazing opportunity to be a part of the Students of the Year Program, and I would appreciate if you come along on my journey in beating blood cancer. The Students of the Year Program is a seven week competition between students all across the nation in order to fund and raise awareness for blood cancer research and improve the lives of all cancer patients. In learning about the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's (LLS) mission, I have been inspired to help those who suffer from health conditions that I can't imagine experiencing. As someone who is fortunate enough not to live with any medical condiitons, I think it is important to raise awareness on how much these conditions, such as cancer, can affect one's life tremendously. 

In taking part of the SOY Program this year, I especially want to show others that no matter how young you are, you too can make a difference in helping others. I think it is important to show others that kids too can change the future and contribute to a bigger cause. In regards to LLS, so many people are affected by cancer, as I personally have also been affected by it too. I strongly believe it is important that the next generation contributes in finding ways to cure cancer, so that some day, we all can put an end to this lifetaking condition. 

As we are currently in a pandemic, life itself is already more overbearing than usual, but now the lives of cancer patients are put at higher risk. During this time especially, I would appreciate any donations and sharing of my fundraising page in order to raise awareness! I hope you will continue to follow my journey throughout these seven weeks!

Thank you for your time, and remember that the impact you leave on others is prominent to the mark you leave on the world. Together, we can beat cancer!

-Kendra (KC) Soewandi 

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