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The Department of Health has invited Sergio Cepeda, a young athlete whose challenges have served to raise funds for research on childhood cancer to visit the institutes of the municipality to transmit their experience to students, on the occasion of the celebration tomorrow Friday February 15, Children's Cancer Day.
Sergio Cepeda, a neighbor of Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, who studied Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, at the San Javier School, has spent this week at the IES "Mar Menor", "Ruiz de Alda" and "Sagrado Corazón" to publicize his project with which last year he managed to collect 13,000 euros that went to the Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia where he arrived by bicycle from Paris.
Your next challenge will be to leave from Santiago de Compostela to reach Santiago de la Ribera, although the charity stop will be at the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital to the Childhood Cancer Unit to which the collected proceeds will go.
The trip is scheduled for the second week of August and is expected to take 7 days with 150 kilometers.
The donation system is made through a micro-donation page through a crowfunding platform in networks, so that the money collected goes directly to the beneficiary entity.
All the information about the next challenge and about the next opening of the micro-donation page will be available at @EnBiciContraElCancer and kilometrosdelucha in instagram.
Sergio Cepeda shares, through his social networks, every day of each new challenge that began alone as a plan for his vacations, to which he tried to find a usefulness.
His first solo experience was Santiago de la Ribera, to Santiago de Compostela.
Now other brave people have joined him in his next adventure for which he already has a group of 10 people, who will join pedaled by the investigation of childhood cancer.
The Councilor for Health, Catalina Pérez who accompanied him on his visit to the IES "Mar Menor", thanked Sergio Cepeda for his initiative "that can be an example for young people who listen to him for his charitable deed with which at the same time introduces the theme of childhood cancer from the perspective of research ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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