Students of the Year New Jersey

Apoorva Gautam | Pirates for a Cure

Welcome to Apoorva Gautam's SOY Fundraising Page!

Jan 15, 2019

Welcome! Please help me and my team, Pirates for a Cure, make a difference!

I am honored to participate in the 2019 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 raising critical dollars in honor of a young patient hero who is currently battling or is 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(s) 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.

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!

For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org.

 

14 Comments

  • Meenu Agrawal

    A noble cause.

  • Kavita & Ravi Prasad

    Dear Apoorva, Our best wishes and hope you achieve your target !!! Kavita & Ravi

  • Sumedha Bailur

    Go Pirates team!

  • Mitali Chakrabarty

    We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa Keep up the Good work!!!

  • Shyamala and Navdeep

    Good Luck to Apoorva on her initiative. Shyamala & Navdeep

  • Ratna Singh

    Applaud your efforts Apoorva. With best wishes Ratna and Deepak

  • Shraddha Adepu

    Have to kick cancer out!! Way too many precious lives lost to this hideous disease!!

  • Nidhi Narang

    Hi Apoorva- applaud your efforts for this noble cause

  • Renu Arora

    Go Pirates👍

  • Jaya Panchavati

    Keep up the good work!

  • Vandana Singh

    All the best in your fundraising effort Apoorva! I'm sure you will achieve your goal to raise $20,000 !!!

  • Veronica Mehno

    Juan Carlos Garcia

  • SONIA GAWAS

    Dear Apporva, Good luck in achieving your goal!

  • Shashank Singh

    Great cause! Hope this makes positive interventions in the lives of many.

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