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I was really surprised.
I didn’t think that -- I mean,
I thought it was gonna be hard but not this hard.
That’s leukemia survivor Ryan Darby.
He’s been battling cancer at Georgetown University Hospital
for the past two years, but also, at the same time,
raising money for families of other kids with cancer.
Remarkable. -Just takes you back.
Today he presented an eighty seven thousand dollar check
to Georgetown University Hospital’s Family Assistance Fund
and that is where Kristin Fisher caught up with our eight year old philanthropist.
JUST TRYAN IT is raising money for Georgetown for the Family Assistance Fund.
Ryan Derby can work a room like a pro and yet he’s only in the third grade.
He doesn’t get nervous to go and stand in front of 800 people
and deliver a speech.
Buy Ryan remembers a time when he was nervous.
It was pretty scary.
Two years ago when he was diagnosed with leukemia.
I had fevers. My blood pressure is too high. I had to get needles in me.
Now, Ryan was in the hospital for about a month
here at Georgetown University Hospital
and it was during that time that a group of his mother’s friends
came together with the idea to start the JUST TRYAN IT Foundation.
There’s a group of 13 women that we started running triathlons
and when Ryan was diagnosed,
we thought what a great way to raise money and awareness
then to have a triathlon for a lot of kids.
They run, swim, ride bikes.
It was definitely easier than all of the cancer.
In two years in two triathlons they’ve raised roughly a hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for the families of kids battling cancer at Georgetown University Hospital.
Families, many at times they don’t even have the money to buy gas to come to the hospital
or to have food on the table.
This fund allows us to do all that and much more.
Ryan has done all that at just eight years old, but he’s still not satisfied.
I would like to see JUST TRYAN IT in one year get one hundred thousand dollars.
He is my hero.
He’s amazing.
In Washington, Kristin Fisher, Nine News Now.