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2/5/2015
A little over a week ago, 10-year-old Maya Rigler learned that her cancer had relapsed after eight years in remission.
Her response? She launched a fundraiser for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a nonprofit organization that raises money to research cures for childhood cancers, for which she has volunteered ever since her initial bout with the disease.
“With everyone being so supportive and buying me stuff, I thought to myself, ‘I don’t need all this stuff,’ and I thought we could help other kids,” said Maya, the daughter of Rabbis Peter Rigler of Temple Sholom in Broomall and Stacy Eskovitz Rigler of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, where she is the director of religious education.
She would rather help others than “spend all the money on me because I’ll be fine and some kids are not” Maya explained.
