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Katrina Tarrant, Harcourts NSW chief executive officer, doesn’t have a fantastic relationship with snakes, but this year she will front up her fear to fight a good cause.
“Yep, I have a high loathing of snakes,” she has shared — yet on Friday, 16 September 2022, Ms Tarrant will enter a bath filled with live snakes to raise money for the Children’s Cancer Institute.
The initiative, which will be undertaken as part of the CEO Dare to Cure drive — a fundraising program now in its fifth year that brings together leading CEOs and business leaders Australia-wide to face a fear — and assist the curing of childhood cancer.
The Children’s Cancer Institute is the only independent medical research institute in Australia wholly dedicated to curing childhood cancer, which kills more Australian kids than any other illness.
“We all know someone who has been affected by cancer,” Ms Tarrant said. “Now imagine hearing the words ‘your child has cancer.
“This year more than 1000 families will hear those words.”
Every week the disease kills nearly three Australian children and adolescents, a number that Ms Tarrant stressed “is three too many”.
“That’s why this year I have agreed to step out of my comfort zone and raise funds to find a cure for the brave kids who face the fear of treatment every single day,” she said.
Her snake bath is one of seven sponsoring challenges as part of the 2022 edition of the CEO Dare to Cure, and Ms Tarrant has set a fundraising target that is her main focus between now and the event.
“$5000 will help Children’s Cancer Institute conduct minimal residual disease testing for two children with leukaemia so they can detect their risk of relapse,” she said.
She encourages people to get behind her efforts and sponsor her dare, explaining that “[kids] fighting cancer don’t need miracles, they need medical research”.
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