Money raised by Terry Fox Run presented to Tumour Hospital

Source: NhanDan

The Canadian Embassy on January 18 presented VND 305 million (US $19,000) collected from the Terry Fox Run held in Hanoi last September to the Tumour Hospital in support of the hospital's cancer research.

The Terry Fox Run 2006, the seventh of its kind in Hanoi, attracted more than 8,000 participants.

The organising board, including the Canadian Embassy, the Canadian Trade Chamber in Hanoi, the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations, the Vietnam-Canada Friendship Organisation, the Hanoi Health Department and the Tumour Hospital, organises the run to raise funds for cancer research on the first Sunday of November every year. The event annually takes place around Thien Quang Lake, Hanoi.

The run is held in commemoration of Terry Fox, a Canadian who lost one leg because of bone cancer. He ran across Canada in 143 days to raise money for cancer research.

To date, more than US $400 million have been raised for cancer research through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world.

In Vietnam, the first Terry Fox Runs were held in Ho Chi Minh City in 1996 and in Hanoi in 2000. More than VND 3 billion (nearly US $200,000) have so far been collected.