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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two students astatine Washington Union High are connected a ngo to rise wealth successful enactment of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
As Student Visionaries of the Year, they're successful a nationwide contention to combat humor cancer.
Monday morning, Washington Union High School Senior Grenelei Finderup and Junior Abril Jimenez were folding up letters and stuffing envelopes.
They were besides perfecting their pitch.
Selected to beryllium portion of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Student Visionaries of the Year program, they're portion of a nationwide seven-week philanthropic contention to rise wealth successful grant of those affected by humor cancer.
The fundraising kicks disconnected connected Thursday, Feb. 29.
Students are besides learning invaluable entrepreneurship, selling and task absorption skills.
Abril says she wasn't assured with nationalist speaking.
"In the opening for me, it felt precise rocky," she said.
Working with her people successful the Health Science and Medical Technology pathway, it helped physique her assurance and signifier however they planned to tackle their fundraising goals.
"Once that was acceptable successful stone, it was casual to conscionable support moving guardant with it," Abril said.
Their ngo is driven successful portion by their honored hero, Rebeka Henkelmann.
She's a existent Buchanan High Student who is present successful remission aft being diagnosed with AML Leukemia successful March of past year.
Student visionaries tin tally connected 1 of 3 pillars: research, advocacy oregon diligent support.
Grenelei and Abril some decided to absorption connected research.
So far, they person already met with and secured pledges from Valley Children's Hospital and Sun-Maid.
"It's beauteous overmuch based connected who we cognize and who we tin get through," Grenelei said.
Tyler Graham, the Campaign Development Manager for the Fresno Region says students successful the Central Valley marque a large impact.
"Last year, their 12 teams brought successful conscionable implicit $850,000. This year, we person 14 teams, astir 27 students and we're trying to rise $1 million."
Grenelei and Abril's squad is known arsenic the WUHS Future Health Professionals.
They person their ain QR codification to guarantee donations number toward their wide extremity of $200,000.
But much than anything, they accidental they privation to marque a difference.
"Our existent anticipation is that we tin conscionable interaction our assemblage successful immoderate mode and those who conflict with humor crab whether that's uncovering a cure, helping the patients and the families spell done a hard clip oregon educating those connected humor cancer," Grenelei said.
On March 22, the young ladies volition big a movie nighttime fundraiser astatine Washington Union High School.
They're showing The Minions.
You tin bargain tickets astatine the doorway and the archetypal 100 radical to get get a escaped Chick-fil-A sandwich.
You tin find much accusation astir sponsorships oregon marque a donation betwixt Feb. 29 and April 19 to the "WUHS Future Health Professionals" squad by clicking here.
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