Colleagues visiting each London station to fundraise for boy, 4, with most cancers
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group of colleagues are visiting each London Tube and railway station to lift cash for a train-obsessed four-year-old boy so he can obtain life-saving most cancers therapy overseas.
Lead organiser Florian Frank Fleitmann, 40, instructed the PA news company that the group of colleagues have already visited virtually 50 stations, as they purpose to lift £1,500.
The mother and father of four-year-old Teddy Lichten launched a £300,000 fundraising attraction in February to provide their son the most effective likelihood of beating the childhood most cancers neuroblastoma, which led to colleagues of mum Kat Lichten pitching in to assist fundraise.
The colleagues have been documenting their progress on Instagram at @trackingtrains4teddy with pictures and movies, and plan to collate the pictures right into a memento for Teddy.
Mr Fleitmann stated: “Teddy obviously is a big fan of trains and everything that has to do with trains, and… we were thinking, what can we do to support Katherine and Teddy and their family.
“It was an open chat between the small group of our team and we had the idea of visiting train stations, because a lot of us are commuting from in and outside of London.
“We were thinking, we might as well combine that with taking selfies or snapshots or videos of trains arriving and we could turn this into a challenge over the summer for two or three months to get people to have a little bit of fun with us and take them on our journey.”
The colleagues plan to provide Teddy a particular memento as soon as they full the problem of visiting over 500 London stations, which they hope to do by the top of September.
Mr Fleitmann stated: “We’re also looking at putting the best pictures together at the end of the challenge to give Teddy some sort of collection of photos that he can then keep for the future, for a photo book or a memory game.
“The family will have a little bit of a souvenir from that as well.”
The colleagues, from advertising agency W&J Linney, have added a further layer of creativity and enjoyable to the problem by writing a narrative involving a personality, Toby the Toy Train, as they go to the stations.
Mr Fleitmann stated: “One of my colleagues had the idea of a children’s story of Toby the Toy Train, who is on his journey to find Teddy, and every once in a while we are interleaving our posts with little chapters of Toby’s adventures.”
Teddy’s mum, Ms Lichten, 34, stated she is “so touched” that her colleagues have been moved to assist her household by taking up this problem.
She stated: “I’m very thankful for their support, especially as I have been unable to return to work since Teddy’s diagnosis as he has been so unwell.”
She stated that her son “loves to watch the videos they share of the stations they have visited for him”.
Teddy was recognized with high-risk neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood most cancers, in July 2022, at which level the most cancers had already metastasized in practically each space of his physique and had taken over 60% of his bone marrow.
After present process a number of gruelling rounds of chemotherapy and different remedies, he has not too long ago begun six months of immunotherapy and can end frontline therapy on the finish of 2023.
Teddy’s mother and father are working with the specialist neuroblastoma charity, Solving Kids’ Cancer, to assist them elevate the funds for a probably life-saving most cancers vaccine in New York.
The vaccine may price as much as £300,000 and would contain eight journeys to the US over three years.
So far, the household have raised over £150,000.