Celebrating a milestone through Miles4Marrow campaign

RUNNER, Candice Jenkinson will be marking her 32nd birthday by choosing to make a meaningful difference through The Sunflower Fund’s Miles4Marrow fundraising and awareness campaign.

This will be an especially significant birthday for Candice on 17 April, as she will be taking on the Tongaat 21.1km half marathon and aims to raise as much funds as possible for The Sunflower Fund. Candice is encouraging friends, family and the general public to support her by sponsoring her financially for every mile or kilometre run.

This marathon, in a series of others, is part of Candice’s training and preparation in her hope to conquer the 2018 Comrades Marathon and she wanted to include The Sunflower Fund in it, on a day that is as special to her as the cause is. Candice is familiar with the gift of giving as she raised the funds for her birthday last year to pay for her own testing and registration on the South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR).

This year she aims to do one better by giving the same opportunity to others who would like to register, through the funds raised from her Miles4Marrow birthday campaign, and ultimately give the gift of hope to patients living with leukaemia and other life-threatening blood disorders.

If you would like to support Candice and contribute toward her campaign, make payment in favour of The Sunflower Fund, ABSA, 405 183 4719, branch code 632005 with reference DBNM4MCJ and your name.

If you would like to know more about the Miles4Marrow campaign, The Sunflower Fund or how to become a donor, contact Tanith King on 031 266 1148 or email tanith@sunflowerfund.org.za