Above: 2007 Bike America Team members, Sehee Jang and Andrew Webster, on the shore of Lake Erie, 5/31/07. Sehee Jang has recently returned to his home in South Korea. Sehee, we wish you the best!
The Illini 4000 for Cancer seeks to accomplish the following in 2008:
1. Raise $100,000 for the research fund of the American Cancer Society and other organizations that improve cancer patients' quality of life.
2. Send a team of 25 college students on a 4,000 mile bicycle ride from New York City to Seattle. To speak at community centers and houses of worship about our cause, our mission, and steps individuals can take to live healthy, cancer-free lives.
3. To interview a diverse array of cancer patients and survivors and to record these interviews as part of The Portraits Project. To use these interviews to create a historical record of cancer's influence on American life in 2008.
4. To bring together University of Illinois alumni under one cause: the fight against cancer.
5. To connect with our supporters and fans throughout our journey through various types of media on a new website.
