Local youth football teams raise awareness for childhood cancer

KINGWOOD, TX -- For most of September, several Kingwood Football League teams worked to turn their fields gold in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness month.

Wearing gold socks, shoelaces and ribbons; the KFL teams brought awareness for childhood cancers and have even formed a team to participate in the annual Walk by Faith 10K/5K on Sunday, Nov. 9 which raises money for pediatric brain cancer research.

Though September ended, these KFL players, supporters and families affected by childhood cancers want to keep the awareness going all year long.

"This is the first year we started this initiative with KFL so we only had a few teams that wore gold during September but I know we will have more in the future," Amber Bender, mom of one of the KFL players and founder of Addi's Faith Foundation that started the Walk by Faith 10K/5K, said. "We always see pink for Breast Cancer Awareness so I think next year, we should all wear gold for Childhood Cancer awareness during September."

The walk was started by a nonprofit organization, Addi's Faith Foundation, that was started in honor of Amber's daughter, Addison Faith Bender, who was diagnosed with an atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor in June 2007.

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