Players at Sunshine Heights Cricket Club (SHCC) and the Victoria Police cricket club will rack up runs for a reason this week in a T20 match to raise funds for the A+ Abbey Solo Foundation.
The club has partnered with the A+ Abbey Solo Foundation, which offers practical and emotional support to families at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne while their children undergo cancer treatment.
The foundation does this by assisting families with the financial cost of food, parking, fuel, transport, short-term accommodation, and more.
SHCC vice-president Nick Hatzoglou said it’s the seventh year the club has run the event.
“We raise money and awareness. It’s a really worthy cause,” he said.
This year there will be an ice-cream truck, a halal BBQ, a DJ, fun activities for the kids, a raffle, facepainting, police horses and fire trucks.
Mr Hatzoglou invited locals far and wide to enjoy the community event.
“This year we’re going to have lots of people come, even including our local members, federal and state,” he said.
Mr Hatzoglou said many members of the cricket team knew Abbey Solo from going to school with her.
According to the A+ Abbey Solo Foundation, Abbey was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in 2009, battling the disease for six and a half years before she tragically died at the age of nine.
She was known for her strength, resilience, wisdom beyond her years and her ability to touch the lives of others and form deep connections with those around her.
Mr Hatzoglou commended foundation founders Malia Silao and Solo Fetalai, president Gerard Broadfoot and other board members for their work as part of the A+ Abbey Solo Foundation.
The T20 for kids with cancer event will run from 5pm to 9pm on Thursday 26 February at SHCC, Ainsworth Reserve, 25 Vernon Crescent, Sunshine West.
