NYC Marathon 2017 - Team Logo

Every year in the Netherlands, there's Serious Request: a radio show where 5 DJ's lock themselves up in a glass studio for a week without any food to raise money for charity. This year, a little boy called Tijn visited the studio to tell the DJ's how he was going to raise money. With this, he wanted to raise awareness for children with the same disease he had himself: Brain Stem Cancer. With only months to live, he wanted to raise as much money as possible, he only thought about helping others while ignoring himself.

His idea? Every one had to paint their nails and leave them painted until the end of the Serious Request week. If you participated, he asked to donate 1 euro and challenge 3 new people to do it as well. This way, he only managed to raise over 1.000.000 euros, a record!

He also raised awareness for Stichting Semmy, a non-profit foundation doing research to children with Brain Stem Cancer and help them to live their live at best as possible, even with the low live-expectation.

The running team of Mike van Dijk is going to participated in the New York Marathon 2017 to raise money for this particular non-profit foundation, to support and carry on the mission of this little boy Tijn. This logo is for them.

Good luck over there in New York!