MEMPHIS, Tenn. — This month is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
In honor of all the children who have faced cancer in the eye, thousands of people gathered at Tom Lee Park for the St. Jude Walk/Run .
“I’m running for my little cousin,” participant Cameron Green said. “She passed away a few years ago. She was a St. Jude patient at one point and St. Jude showed a lot of love to our family.”
Organizers say the event’s purpose is to raise money to help support the lifesaving mission of St. Jude which is to find cures and save children.
Children like Quincy.
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“He was diagnosed with Wilms tumor in 2018 and from the moment we got that phone call and was told he had to be at St. Jude the next day, it was life-changing,” Quincy’s mother Karla said.
“I could only pray to God to help me through this,” Quincy said.
His mom said at first, they were unsure of what the future held but she said that all changed when they walked through the front doors of the hospital.