Splash 5K

🏃‍♂️ Race Overview

• Event: Splash 5K
• Date: 2025-09-06
• Start Time: 1445
• Location: Darden Towe Park, Charlottesville, VA

💙 About the Race

Splash 5K is a family-friendly run/walk fundraiser for the Ishan Gala Foundation. IGF provides financial and emotional support to families in Virginia and through the U.S. with a child fighting cancer. After the Race, there will be awards and participants can enjoy snacks, mingle, learn about IGF and our fighting families.

🌟 About IGF

• Foundation Story: IGF was founded by Mayank and Sejal Gala after the loss of their 2-year-old son, Ishan, to neuroblastoma in 2008.
• Support Focus: They provide vital research grants and emotional support for families facing cancer.
• Current Mission: In 2015, IGF switched its focus to supporting families financially and emotionally throughout Virginia and the United States.
• Programs: IGF has various programs to ease financial stress and bring joy to families during their tough journey, including a Holiday Cheer Program.

🎁 How We Help

The Ishan Gala Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit with a mission to be present in lives of children fighting cancer and their families to improve their quality of life during and after treatment. IGF fulfills its mission through various programs focused on easing financial stress, celebrating milestones in their lives, comforting during the bad days, and bringing moments of joy and fun into their lives during this extremely long, tough journey. We also help families during the holidays through our Holiday Cheer Program by fulfilling wishlists, providing wrapping supplies, grocery gift cards, and a holiday party exclusively for families.

📞 More Information

From something as simple as delivering a smile to taking care of a month of bills …we are there for our families.

For more information please visit www.ishangala.org

🔗 Registration

For details and registration, visit the race page: Splash 5K Race Page