JACK'S            GOAL

Jack D’Lima’s family and friends set up Jack’s Goal in January 2006, following the loss of Jack in March 2005.  Money raised will go to Ali’s Dream, a charity whose aim is to raise funds for research into discovering the causes, advancing treatments and finding a cure for childhood brain tumours.  Beverley D’Lima has been a trustee of this charity since 2003.

 

Jack lost his nine-year battle with a brain tumour shortly after his 10^th birthday.  Initially diagnosed when he was 15 months old in 1996, his family never gave up hope of a miracle.  Yet the harsh truth is that the chances of finding a cure in the next five years are very remote as there is little research being undertaken in this particular cancer.  Clinical statistics now prove that brain tumours have overtaken leukaemia as the biggest cancer killer of children under fifteen.

 

Having lost Jack we are all united in our grief, but we are also united in our determination to work tirelessly with Ali’s Dream towards finding a cure for this devastating disease sooner rather than later.