Riding for Juliana
- National: 253rd
- Category: 49th
Our Challenge
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3 Oct 2024
This September, Riding for Juliana is taking part in the Great Cycle Challenge to fight kids' cancer!
Why? Because right now, cancer is the biggest killer of children from disease in the United States. Over 15,700 children are diagnosed every year, and sadly, 38 children die of cancer every week.
Juliana was precocious 9 year old when she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), the deadliest pediatric brain tumor. DIPG affects nearly 400 children in the USA every year, and no effective therapies are available. Patients with DIPG will slowly lose their ability to walk, stand, talk, eat, and breathe, while maintaining their cognitive abilities. A DIPG diagnosis is terminal with average survival lasting a meager 10 months.
Following her DIPG diagnosis, Juliana survived 53 weeks, passing on 3 March 2019. Juliana fought the bravest fight with the wish to resume the life she knew before her DIPG diagnosis.
So we are raising funds through our challenge to help kids like Juliana who are facing terrible odds against brain tumors. Support for the Children's Cancer Research Fund allows them to continue their work to develop lifesaving treatments and find a cure for childhood cancer, particularly in those cases where no effective treatment exists.
Please support us by making a donation to give these kids the brighter futures they deserve.
Your support will change little lives.
Thank you.
Marcelo
Posted 13 days ago
Our Sponsors
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Marcelo
“Dear Ayla and Greg, Don't have words to thank you for your generosity and support to my GCC efforts. For me, doing this pales in comparison to what kids must go through when battling brain tumors, particularly DIPG. Your contribution shall ease their efforts and perhaps help find novel therapies that one day will turn brain tumors into a chronic disease not a guaranteed killer 🙏”
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Just me sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Hugs my friends... deep hugs.”
$207Received this donation 26 days ago
Marcelo
“Dear Paul, I'm speechless, man 🙏. What an amazing surprise and massive honor it is to have your support for the GCC! THANK YOU BROTHER!”
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Paul Miller sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Ride hard my dear friend”
$207Received this donation 80 days ago
Marcelo
“Paul, no words I can say can ever match your generosity! Thank you my dear friend for this, my first 2024 GCC donation. Your dedication to pediatric brain tumor and other blood disorders is unparalleled!”
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Doug Allen sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Very admirable Marcelo!!! Go buddy!!!”
$196.65Received this donation 28 days ago
Marcelo
“Doug, thank you so much for your generosity and support for my GCC Riding for Juliana fundraising🙏. Your generous donation shall help kids fighting cancer and hopefully lead to the development on novel effective therapies for cases in which none are available, such as in DIPG!”
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Marcelo
“Dear Jimmy, Thank you for your generosity and support to the Childhood Cancer Research Fund and the memory of my daughter Juliana 🙏”
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Joel Philliber sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Way to go Marcelo. That is a lot of miles!”
$103.50Received this donation 9 days ago
Marcelo
“Joel, thank you for your generosity and support to the Children's Cancer Research Fund in Juliana's memory 🙏”
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Marcelo
“Thank you yet again, Mark. Your generosity towards my efforts to bring about change to the current paradigm of DIPG will help kids like Juliana in their fight to beat the monster that is ped brain tumors 🙏”
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Marcelo
“Steve, thank you for supporting my annual GCC ride and more importantly the pediatric cancer cause.”
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Ephraim Starr sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Doubling my pledge because today's ride was mostly gravel and also, just because. Bless you, Marcelo (and Juliana). -Ephraim”
$100.40Received this donation 16 days ago
Marcelo
“Thank you so much, Ephraim. Your support to the pediatric cancer cause on behalf of Juliana helps keep her memory alive🙏”
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Marcelo
“Thank you so much for your support, Anna🙏”
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Jeff Proulx sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Marcelo, always a pleasure to ride with you and I feel Juliana’s spirit with us as we go. God bless!”
$72.45Received this donation 39 days ago
Marcelo
“Cannot thank you enough Jeff! Your generous donation will go to help kids fight for their survival against some of the deadliest foes, specially brain tumors like DIPG! 🙏”
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Aaron Massecar sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Thanks for bringing this cause to our attention Marcelo. I hope to be on at least a couple of your September rides with you.”
$51.75Received this donation 45 days ago
Marcelo
“Thank you for your donation and for spreading the word about Juliana and DIPG, Aaron.”
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curtisomead@gmail.com sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Go for it Marcelo, we’ve got your back!”
$51.75Received this donation 31 days ago
Marcelo
“Thank you very much for your support to the peds cancer cause, Curtis. And thanks for letting me sit on your rear wheel when my legs are screaming for me to stop. With your help I shall be able to make good on my pledge!”
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Jimmy Corrigan sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“R.I.P. Juliana! Your memory lives on through your father's love!”
$51.75Received this donation 24 days ago
Marcelo
“Thank you so much for your support and generosity, Jimmy!”
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Ryan Richbourg sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Glad to contribute towards this cause Marcelo”
$51.75Received this donation 39 days ago
Marcelo
“Thank you for your generosity, Ryan! Your donation will help make a difference towards finding effective treatment(s) for peds cancer that currently have extremely low survival if any at all. It is inconceivable that the same standard therapy used to treat Neil Armstrong's daughter Karen (Muffy) DIPG tumor in 1962, radiation, is the same used today, with no change in survival after 63 years!”
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Cathy Zitti sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Good luck with the challenge!”
$36.23Received this donation 37 days ago
Marcelo
“Kathy, on behalf of Juliana's memory, thank you so much for your support to the Childhood Cancer Research Fund 🙏”
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Marcelo
“Jepson, thank you for your generosity and support to the peds cancer fight!”
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Marcelo
“Thank you so much for your generosity, Rob 🙏”
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Marcelo
“Thank you for supporting my 2024 GCC Riding for Juliana fundraising, Salah.”
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Alisa Bennett sponsored Marcelo Ortigao
“Keep up the fight for awareness and a cure! Proud of you.”
$25.88Received this donation 37 days ago
Marcelo
“No words are enough to say THANK YOU! your support, generosity, and encouragement surely will see me through the end of my challenge 🙏🤞”