Monica Resines

I’m joining the race to help beat childhood cancer by taking part in RBC Race for the Kids

We are joining the RBC Race for kids this year in memory of our first son Mateo. We want to celebrate what it would have been his 15 birthday helping GOSH to raise funds. 

A bit of information about our lovely Mateo: He was diagnosed a very rare caldio-pulmonary malformation right after birth, and he was treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital. They took the most amazing care of him, as they do for many other children there, so we feel this is the best way to honour his memory: helping other children who find themselves in a similar situation.

Let's keep up all together the incredible work of GOSH!!! There are many other children like Mateo, and with all our support, we will help that amazing institution to care and cure many more children in need of help , as well as doing grounbreaking research to cure all kinds of conditions. 

We are taking part in GOSH Charity’s family festival and fun run, RBC Race for the Kids, to raise funds to help build the new Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Cancer is the biggest killer of children aged one to 14 in the UK. But a child doesn’t have to die from cancer for it to take their life. Living with cancer is different for every child. It can mean countless rounds of debilitating treatment. Seeing your siblings through the windows of an isolation room. Not knowing when you’ll sleep in your own bed again. It can mean missing out on parties and playdates and trips to the park. It can mean missing the moments that make up a childhood. 

But we won’t let it. 

We won’t let cancer steal childhoods. 

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) already cares for children with the hardest to treat cancers. Pioneering research is underway to find the most effective treatments and cures, which give hope to children and their families. 

But the rapidly changing pace of cancer medicine has outstripped GOSH’s existing cancer facilities., and the hospital needs a new home to help deliver breakthrough therapies. Somewhere that will treat the child, not just their disease. 

That home will be the new Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH.

The funds raised from RBC Race for the Kids will help build a world-class facility with children at its heart. 

A place where children have access to play and education alongside pioneering treatments. Where families can stay together through some of the hardest moments. Where access to outdoor space is a priority, and a focus on nutrition helps fuel recovery. 

Please sponsor us to take on a 5k for GOSH Charity. Together we can build it. Together we can help beat childhood cancer.