A former footballer is making his way through Preston this week as part of a mighty challenge in honour of his late young daughter.
Footballer turned endurance athlete and childhood cancer activist, Ashley Cain, 33, tragically lost his eight-month-old daughter Azaylia Diamond Cain to Acute Myeloid Leukaemia in April 2021. This unimaginable tragedy led Ashley and Azaylia’s mum, Safiyya Vorajee, to create The Azaylia Foundation a month later to help fight childhood cancer and to change the attitudes and a system they say considers cancer to be rare in children.
I am crossing Britain three times from top to bottom - once running, once cycling and once kayaking. That’s nearly 3,000 miles in three months, to help raise funds for the charity set up in my daughter’s name, The Azaylia Foundation, and specifically The Azaylia Childhood Cancer PhD Scholarship Programme. It’s already funded 5 PhDs with a target of 20 PhDs in 5 years.
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