(Newswire.net — March 5, 2015) — Kick off a cancer-curing fundraising campaign with a jumpstart. ‘Ending Cancer Begins with Me’ is hosting a Facebook event, “100 Friend in 100 Hours to Beat Cancer.” The hopeful outcome of this event that takes place on March 2, 2015, is that 100 (or more) new followers will donate towards Mary Carillo’s fight against Leukemia.
The event is helping Mary Carillo raise funds that act as votes to get her awarded a research grant in her son’s name in order to help find a cure for blood cancers worldwide. Join us on March 2 and donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Mary’s honor to help her towards her goals.
Everyday more and more people are diagnosed with cancer. It is happening to more than just smokers and those older folks we deemed had lived a crazy life. Now, innocent children and babies are not only diagnosed ill, but terminal. Children and babies are dying because there is no yet known and proven cure for leukemia. That isn’t stopping one grieving mother from trying to make a change.
Mary Carillo was dealt a very difficult hand when her son was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia just before his seventh birthday. Once a bubbly, bright, active young boy, now a gravestone she can cry over. Cancer is a gripping killer, and the only fight we have against it is knowledge.
Mary has been nominated as Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Woman of the Year due to her valiant efforts to raise money, awareness and support for the foundation. She wants her son’s memory to live on with his attitude of perserverance and happiness. He never gave up, he never backed down. He was strong and a fighter. Mary is carrying that torch and raising thousands of dollars to pay for research to helps others who have or will have the same disease that took her baby boy.
She plans to raise $50,000 in 10 days in order to get a research grant in her son Calvin’s name. This money and knowledge will be used to fight blood cancer around the world.
The events are available on youtube and facebook to help her raise the money as every dollar counts for one vote. Her efforts over the last two years have shown that she is a strong and capable leader. Able to hold her son and support him through his pain, and now able to raise valuable resources so that others don’t ever have to endure that pain. Her strength comes from the happy little boy that lives on inside her, and in every smile she shares.
He truly was the light of her life. Every mother’s worst nightmare is to lose a baby to illness. Children are supposed to outlive their parents, and reversing that seems against the laws of nature. It happens, though. Too often.
We have to make a change and do something about all this death and illness among our children. There is a cause, we just have to find it. There is a cure, we just have to find it. There is hope, we just have to believe it. This grant will give the scientists the resources and support to find a cure and help the thousands of patients suffering from blood cancers. Mary’s son Calvin never lost hope or feared the outcome. His fight doesn’t have to be lost in the mix of sadness. Help Mary become Woman of the Year and raise money and awareness for Leukemia worldwide. The problem isn’t just on tv or in magazines anymore. It is in houses and neighborhoods much too close for comfort. Remember, every dollar is one vote so spare as many as you can so share the hope for the future of cancer survivors!