Hi there! Thank you so much for visiting my fundraising page! My name is Sophia Rees and I’m a junior at the National Cathedral School. You may know me as a family member, a friend, or perhaps through my parents (I am the daughter of Nina and Matthew Rees). Either way, I am beyond excited to announce that I will be participating in the 2022 Students of the Year campaign to raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, as a candidate for Team Close Cares. The Students of the Year campaign is a seven-week initiative in which high school students from around the country are nominated to participate in a fundraising competition to benefit LLS’s mission: to find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. 

As you know, everyone wins when cancer loses. Thanks to your support, my efforts will help fund therapies and treatments that are saving lives. Over the years, support from people like you has been responsible for the blood cancer advancements that have doubled, tripled, and in some cases quadrupled the survival rate for some blood cancers.
 
Many LLS-supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are also now used to treat patients with rare forms of stomach and skin cancers and are in clinical trials for patients with lung, brain, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers. And LLS-funded drugs like targeted therapies and immunotherapies are now saving thousands of lives every day.
 
We really are getting close to our goal of a world without blood cancers!
 
All donations are greatly appreciated and tax-deductible. They'll not only support LLS research, but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well.

 
I truly hope you consider donating to my campaign! And remember, every dollar counts!