**Target has been raised to £10,000!**

As many of you will know, a beautiful member of our family Minha lost her battle with cancer at just 18 years old on the 16th of April 2020. 

Minha was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer two years ago and despite many challenges during her journey, she faced them with optimism, fearlessness and most importantly, always smiling.

Her attitude during these tough times was nothing short of an inspiration. After her chemotherapy, Minha had lost all of her hair at 17 and had to wear a wig, but acted as if there was no change to her life despite feeling self conscious. When her hair grew back, it had gone from being super straight to an Afro but she never complained, even though she hated it at first (we all grew to love it!). Despite having major surgeries to remove her tumor and a very tough round of chemotherapy, she revised hard and still attended school till the very end, achieving all of her GCSE's. She remained quick witted with us all and still engaged in her hobbies of reading, fan-girling over K-pop and drawing anime.

Minha never lost sight of the end goal of going to university and even during her final months, she was thinking of how she could study with her condition, making plans to get a portable oxygen cylinder as her breathing deteriorated.

Despite the ever-building burden her body suffered, Minha’s mental strength remained untouched. She never ever lost faith that she would get better and as a family, we will always be in awe of her strength and determination.

Minha never acted like a 16 year old with cancer, she was just a 16 year old.

About our run:

As a proud brother of Minha’s, I didn't want her battle with cancer to go unrecognized, and to honour this, we decided to challenge ourselves.

Minha had a 734 day battle with cancer and therefore I originally planned to honour her life by running 734km in one month amongst 5 of my good friends and family. When Minha’s story was shared however, I was overwhelmed with support and so many people wanted to contribute to honour her so we thought to challenge ourselves further.

I am now proud (and nervous!) to say 30 of my close friends and family will be instead aiming to beat our original figure by 5 times and completing a 3670km run between us all! This will mean running on average 5km a day for 30 days!

Minha celebrated her 18th birthday just a few weeks ago in quarantine and looked forward to celebrating with us all once this was over. Unfortunately she is not going to be able to do this now however we are hoping this run can double up as a celebration of her turning 18.

Macmillan Cancer Trust were a fantastic organisation for Minha and her family - providing them with 24 hour support, assistance and care and they really helped ease the pain of this battle Minha was going through. For this reason we would like to honour not just a beautiful life, but an amazing organisation so they can keep on supporting families like Minha’s.

As Minha’s close family and friends, we kindly ask you to donate to this page. A penny, a pound or whatever you feel comfortable with - it will be greatly appreciated by all of us participating, as well as Minha’s family.

Minha will be truly missed by us all, but we know she’d be so overwhelmed with all the love surrounding her now. Her passing has taught us all so much about life and how lucky we are and this run is only the beginning of honoring her legacy.

Thank you for taking the time out to read Minha’s story and for all your support. It truly means the world!