Benjamin Gray

Support my Challenge to Help Kids with Cancer!

I am taking part in 86K for a Cure to help find a cure for childhood cancer.

While any funds raised will go to an Australian organisation, I would like to dedicate this challenge to the estimated 30,000 human children and adolescents on our shared planet who will probabilistically develop cancer this month. Each of these children’s lives has value of an order of magnitude that, as an adolescent with limited life experience, I find difficult to comprehend, let alone express. Cancer does not discriminate on the basis of what nation a person is living in. Neither should we. Less than one-third of children with cancer in low and middle income countries are successfully treated, compared to more than four-fifths of children with cancer in high-income countries such as Australia. Correspondingly, providing wider access to healthcare and existing medicines is vitally important. I encourage anyone who has bothered reading this poorly written message to consider donating to international aid efforts, or writing to their federal parliamentary representatives asking them to increase foreign aid spending, in addition to donating to Children’s Cancer Institute Australia. (The statistics I stated above are derived from the World Health Organisation’s childhood cancer fact sheet, which is available at https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer-in-children.)

Every month, 86 children are diagnosed with cancer in Australia. There is usually no known cause, treatment can go on for many years and it puts an enormous strain on family life.

Together, we can help find a cure for childhood cancer and create safer, more effective treatments.

Please DONATE NOW and support my challenge to change the lives of kids with cancer.