Bedding Down Some Money For Research
Illawarra Mercury
Tuesday May 29, 2001
A group of Illawarra high school students will don their PJs next month - but this is no pyjama party.
The students will wear pyjamas as they walk through Wollongong to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation.
The brainchild of 14-year-old Kiama High student Sheryn Entwistle, the pyjama walkers will set out from Wollongong Hospital at 10am on Saturday June 9.
Accompanying the walkers will be Leuk Bear, the Leukaemia Foundation's mascot.
Before they set off the pyjama-clad teens will distribute mini Leuk Bears to kids in Wollongong Hospital's Kids Ward.
Sheryn said she chose to wear pyjamas on the walk because that's what the kids in hospital had to wear.
The walkers will carry Leukaemia Foundation buckets to collect funds for research into the illness.
Leukaemia is the most common form of childhood cancer. In the next five years, 30,000 adults and children will be diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma or a related blood disease.
© 2001 Illawarra Mercury