Léon van Reijmersdal

€250.00donated
50%
Goal: €500.00

On Saturday 27 June 2026, I will walk fifty kilometres for Raymond. He passed away suddenly from bacterial meningitis during his holiday in South Africa – an event that changed our lives forever.

We are walking for the ItsME Foundation, an organisation dedicated to research into meningitis and raising awareness. This is desperately needed: every day in the Netherlands, 10 to 15 people are affected by this disease, and in 40% cases, this leads to death or permanent damage. The impact on patients and their families is enormous.

With my participation, I want to honour Raymond by contributing to greater awareness, better research, and faster diagnoses.

Will you support me with a donation?
Every euro counts – for research, for education, and above all: for people fighting for recovery.

Together we make a difference. 💛

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Help save lives with your donation

Every day, someone is affected by encephalitis or meningitis, often with lifelong consequences. The ItsME Foundation enables top researchers worldwide to conduct groundbreaking research into these rare diseases.

  • Your donation helps advance research and projects
  • Increase the chances of recovery for patients worldwide

Participants

These amazing people are committed to promoting more international research into meningitis. Will you help us achieve this project’s goal? Your donation is greatly appreciated. Every euro counts! Below, you can donate to individual people or to teams. You can search by team or by the participant’s name.

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As a professional charity, we try to keep costs as low as possible. Therefore, we can use all the help we can get. As Lionel Richie once sang, “Is it me you're looking for?” In other words, if our foundation's purpose aligns with yours, please sign up to volunteer.