This year’s walk was planned for May 31 at LeLacheur Park, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced TeamWalk to do things a little differently. Re-named TeamWalk on Your Terms, we asked supporters to walk and fundraise their own way, and they responded by raising more than $363,000.
“Despite all of the hardships we all have been through this year, our community still came through for us in a big way,” said Jody White, President and CEO of Lowell General Hospital and Circle Health. “Cancer doesn’t go away during a pandemic, making your support of TeamWalk more important and impactful than ever before. Our community never fails to be there for our patients when they need it most.”
Since 2000, TeamWalk has raised more than $13 million and touched the lives of more than 34,000 cancer patients and their families. Every dollar raised goes to help patients at the Cancer Center at Lowell General Hospital and throughout the Merrimack Valley with the things insurance doesn’t cover – an overdue bill, a prescription co-pay, a wig, transportation to and from treatment or integrative therapies to aid recovery.
This year’s TeamWalk Chairman was Carrie Meikle of Chelmsford, a breast cancer survivor who received care at Lowell General Hospital’s Cancer Center.
