Great Cycle Challenge

This October I am taking part in the Great Cycle Challenge to fight kids’ cancer!

I decided to take part in this challenge for a number of reasons and am riding in memory of my best friend Liz’s mum – Rhonda Keogh – who died from cancer a few years ago. She was a very inspiring teacher and was influential in why I became a teacher myself.

Right now, cancer is the largest single killer of children from disease in Australia – over 600 children are diagnosed with cancer every year and, sadly, three die every week.

Kids should be living life, not fighting for it. 

I’ve been a Madricha at Camp Quality and I have seen first-hand some of the sweet kids who have had traumatic experiences due to cancer. I also had a former student that had cancer (Rikki Stern – she made an amazing support group called – Cancer Chicks Australia). 

It is probably the last thing that you would want to hear has happened to one of your students, kids, family or friends but it does happen and I think we need to learn more about it and have treatments that are more tailored to the individual types of cancers and needs of the specific person, not a generic treatment plan. 

So I am riding and raising funds to support the Children’s Medical Research Institute to continue their work into the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and finding a cure for childhood cancer.

If you can, please support my challenge by making a donation through my fundraising page to give these kids the brighter futures they deserve.

https://greatcyclechallenge.com.au/Riders/BecGaida

Together, we can save little lives.

Thanks for your support.