Lenasia Marathon (LM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of patients and families affected by health-challenges within the cancer community and beyond.
The founding Family is no stranger to family illness and caregiving. Long before the family founded the organization for promoting a healthy lifestyle through sports , their mother, Rukhsana, was diagnosed with Cancer when she was just 45-years-old.
She lived with the disease for 8 months, and passed away at the age of 45.
After seeing the effect Cancer has on both the patient and caregivers first-hand, the family felt an unnerving desire to help others within the cancer community. So to honor their mother and do their part in giving back, they entered a cancer fundraising event —the first step to what became a much larger giving journey.
Feeling empathy and compassion for families battling a plethora of incurable diseases, their philanthropic efforts grew into what is now The Lenasia marathon .
Lenasia Marathon was founded upon and still remains focused on Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) to help patients and families affected by cancer, diabetes , heart attacks and stroke. But recognizing the importance of other health-related causes, has since expanded its horizon to partner with other like-minded organizations.
