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5/1/2015
When Maya Rigler was two she fought and beat kidney cancer. Now 10, Maya has an unrelated, rare presentation of a different cancer—Ewing’s Sarcoma; and the tumor on her pancreas is too large, and compromises too many important blood vessels, to be safely removed.
But Maya is not only a fighter (the world’s most clichéd thing to say about a child with cancer); she’s also an activist. The week, she got her new diagnosis. And with friends and family clamoring with requests to help, Maya told her parents: “I don’t need anything! Tell everyone to make a donation to Alex’s Lemonade Stand, because what we all really need is for no more kids to get cancer.”
Alex’s Lemonade Stand was founded in 2000, by then 4-year-old Alexandra Scott, a Philadelphia-area girl with cancer who wanted to help other kids with cancer. Alex encouraged her older brother, Patrick, to help host a lemonade stand in front of their house to raise money for pediatric cancer. They raised $2,000 in a day.
