Blood Cancer Community Comes Together for Light The Night Okanagan Community Walk

Okanagan hosts its 2nd annual walk fundraiser to guide blood cancer patients. OKANAGAN, BC, June 12, 2019,/CNW/ – On June 15, almost a hundred members will gather at Waterfront Park in Kelowna to participate in the volunteer-led Light The Night Okanagan Community Walk. Patients, households, and their supporters will walk in harmony with lanterns raised to carry assistance and hope to the more than 138,000 Canadians suffering from blood cancers. This year marks the second annual walk within the Okanagan. Excitement abounds amongst the event volunteers in making this a unique occasion for all of us.

Olivia Mikkelsen, our venerated hero, can attend this precise occasion where the entire blood cancer community comes together to have a good time; keep in mind and stir up your wish. At age two, Olivia was identified with ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia). At one factor in her adventure, 85% of her blood cells have been odd, and she is only given 24 hours to stay. While in transit to Vancouver for treatment, she becomes given platelet transfusions and blood to live on the flight. Now, at 14 years old, Olivia’s treatments are smaller appointments. Fortunately, over time and all through restoration, she’s turned out to be much stronger and more fit.

In 2018, over 35,000 Canadians raised over $5.9 million to help fund world-elegance Canadian studies and offer aid offerings for gratis to many blood cancer patients, survivors, and their households. At the Light, The Night Okanagan Community Walk, Olivia and her circle of relatives will join all the participants in solidarity to bring mild to the darkness of blood cancers. Please be part of us. Can’t make it to the occasion? Support the teams walking in the event by donating to the online Opening Ceremony.

[7:00 pm] For 12 months, in communities across Canada, groups of families, buddies, and co-workers walk into the night, keeping illuminated lanterns to elevate the price range for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada at the Light The Night Walks. Together, they assist and wish for people laid low with blood cancers and their families. The Walks are an inspirational and memorable nighttime occasion in nearly two hundred communities across North America every fall. There are 12 LLSC-hosted Light The Night Walks and dozens of volunteer-hosted network and faculty walks across the United States of America. Visit LightTheNight.Ca to learn more.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada is the largest voluntary health organization dedicated to blood cancers within the U.S. S .. LLC finances lifesaving blood cancer research throughout Canada and offers unfastened records and support services. Our venture is to remedy leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and myeloma and enhance the first-rate lifestyles of patients and their households.

SOURCE The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada