A sea of pink flooded the Gqeberha beachfront on Saturday as the Algoa FM Big Walk For Cancer brought people from all walks of life together to show their support for survivors and sufferers of the debilitating disease. For the first time in its 24-year history, the event was also staged in East London and George, drawing scores of people who banded together in the fight against cancer.
When ultra-runner Mike Sewell suffered a bad accident in the early days of his run from Cape Town to the starting point of the Comrades Marathon in KwaZulu-Natal, his dream of raising funds for the CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation came crashing down.
A child’s scars from surviving childhood cancer are as permanent as tattoos and it is this notion which saw the unlikely collaboration between some of the city’s tattoo parlours and Choc being born.
No task too big for little people Bay mom on mission to raise funds for some of province’s sickest children PREMIUM By Kathryn Kimberley - 17 July 2021
When her best friend died of cancer at a young age, Lynne Gadd-Claxton did some soul searching and found herself staring at a newspaper advert for the Childhood Cancer Foundation SA (Choc).
She cut out the ad and walked around with it in her pocket for about a week before applying for the position at the 11th-hour.
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