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.<\/p>\n
The club has partnered with the A+ Abbey Solo Foundation, which offers practical and emotional support to families at the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital in Melbourne while their children undergo cancer treatment.<\/p>\n
The foundation does this by assisting families with the financial cost of food, parking, fuel, transport, short-term accommodation, and more.<\/p>\n
SHCC vice-president Nick Hatzoglou said it\u2019s the seventh year the club has run the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe raise money and awareness. It\u2019s a really worthy cause,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Mr Hatzoglou invited locals far and wide to enjoy the community event.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year we\u2019re going to have lots of people come, even including our local members, federal and state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Hatzoglou said many members of the cricket team knew Abbey Solo from going to school with her.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players at Sunshine Heights Cricket Club (SHCC) and the Victoria Police cricket club will rack up runs for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-498374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}