Reach the Day

Reach the Day is an event taking place in Washington, D.C. today and tomorrow. Sponsored by CureSearch, it brings together childhood cancer patients, survivors, families, and the medical community to raise awareness for childhood cancer research. Attendees are given advocacy training, and then get to meet members of Congress to tell their story. CureSearch has made great strides in the last few years, but still has far to go to get more guaranteed federal money for pediatric cancer research, which is chronically underfunded.

We've never made it to Reach the Day. It always seems to fall during the last week of school for us in the Northeast. I think it would be an empowering event for DD17. Maybe someday she'll get to go. She's already a very good fundraiser on her own, organizing events at school to raise money for research. Sadly, it seems every year another child in the community is stricken with cancer.