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Millie’s Awareness Rainbows Showcased in Sydney Event

Millie’s Awareness Rainbows Showcased in Sydney Event
Millie Trustum, with assistance from graphic designer, Andrea Castiglione, has developed three Awareness Rainbows to help raise Childhood Cancer Awareness and funds for childhood cancer research.
Millie’s Awareness Rainbows have been selected by the Kids Cancer Project to be included on a Whale Tail as part of the Waterfront Whale Tails sculpture exhibition in Sydney running from 11 August to 24 September 2022. 30 whale tails sculptures are showcased along a 6-kilometre trail around Sydney’s Western Harbour waterfront each decorated by a local artist.
Kevin Trustum, Millie’s father, said “Millie is honoured and excited her Awareness Rainbows have been chosen as part of the sculpture exhibition”.
The Awareness Rainbow includes a Gold Childhood Cancer Awareness Ribbon, which is a globally recognisable image and illustrates the precious nature of children. The colours of the rainbow represent the most common childhood cancers being, leukemia and kidney cancer (orange), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (lime green), brain cancer (grey), Hodgkin lymphoma (purple) and sarcoma/bone cancer (yellow).
“Three Awareness Rainbows have been developed each with a slogan that has been a symbol of Millie’s own cancer journey being: Be Brave, Stay Strong and Have Hope”, Mr Trustum said.
People can purchase t-shirts and other items printed with Millie’s Awareness Rainbows at a specially created online store. All funds raised will go to The Kids’ Cancer Project, an independent national charity that funds scientific research projects to help children with many types of cancer.
Since 1993 the Kids Cancer Project has been able to contribute millions of dollars to research projects to help children with many types of cancer, thanks to strong community support.
The community can support this fundraiser by visiting Millie’s online store: https://www.millie.theprintbar.com/.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and as a cancer survivor Millie, along with her family raise funds for the Kids Cancer Project each September.
Mr Trustum said, “We see it is our job now to help raise much needed funds for children’s cancer research – so in the future, children will never have to experience what Millie went through”.
Millie, 11 from Tatham NSW, was diagnosed with T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in late 2018 and her cancer became resistant to standard chemotherapy. After undertaking alternative chemotherapy treatments, Millie had a bone marrow transplant from a sibling donor and is now cancer free.
For more information about Millie’s Awareness Rainbows contact Kevin Trustum, 0492 902 686.
For more information about The Kids’ Cancer Project, visit thekidscancerproject.org.au or contact: Linda Fagan, 02 8394 7752, lindaf@tkcp.org.au
For more information about the Sydney Waterfront Whale Tail Trail please visit: http://www.waterfrontwhaletales.com.au/.
The facts:
- Childhood cancer is different to adult cancer.
- Cancer is the leading cause of death of children by disease.
- Three Australian families hear the words, “your child has cancer” every day.
- Every year, 950 Australian children are diagnosed with cancer.
- 20% of children diagnosed with a childhood cancer will not survive
- Every week 3 children die of childhood cancers
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