Step up for patients with blood cancer
The Sunflower Fund is calling on people to support and join the Steps4Hope challenge to help them raise funds.
THE impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is being felt in so many ways across society with many people desperate for life to return to normality.
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The NGO sector is particularly impacted as scores of organisations have had to cancel a number of fund-raising events due to social distancing requirements.
The Sunflower Fund is calling on people to support and join the Steps4Hope challenge to help them raise funds.
The Sunflower Fund is a donor recruitment centre and stem cell registry.
It assists patients with blood cancers like leukaemia and other blood disorders who are in need of a life-saving blood stem cell (bone marrow) transplant, by growing and maintaining an ethnically diverse registry of donors committed to helping anyone in need of a transplant.
People can make a difference from the comfort of their home by joining the Steps4Hope challenge.
One of The Sunflower Fund’s most successful fundraising events is the Everest Challenge, initiated by a transplant survivor who subsequently summited Everest and continues to be a great supporter of the cause.
Steps4Hope, is modelled off the idea of The Everest Challenge, which aims to replicate the distance from the base to the summit by climbing stairs in a team relay totaling 8 848 m.
The Sunflower Fund is bringing the challenge to your home. It is much easier than climbing Everest, but fun all the same.
Get the family involved and get moving. You need to complete roughly 12 000 steps to cover the distance.
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