A sensational 175 People crammed into the Victor Harbor Recreation Centre for The Million Dollar Run Quiz Night on the 27th May to help raise much needed funds for the Butterfly Children around Australia…as a result $5,000 was generated last Friday towards Andrew Biszczak’s minimum goal to raise $1,000,000 in ‘The Million Dollar Run’ for DEBRA Australia.

With a professional film maker in tow, Andrew will run nearly 2,900km from Adelaide to Brisbane leaving in early 2017* to complete the equivalent of 5 marathons per week for 3 months, while helping to create a documentary which will later be produced to further raise awareness of EB around Australia and the world.

MDR Quiz Night 1

Linda, Andrew and Brad Halstead (film maker)

“My involvement in supporting DEBRA was inspired through meeting Kate Turner and her family nearly 6 years ago. It was shortly after Kate passed away last year that I knew I wanted to do so much more, and that is when I created The Million Dollar Run…” Victor Harbor is the home town of the Turner family so it was a natural choice to host The Million Dollar Run Quiz Night here as well.

MDR Quiz Night 2

Laraine (DEBRA SA Representative) and guests

I would like to thank the amazing community, schools and many local businesses who did a fantastic job in helping support this beautifully run event. Special thanks must go out to Tania Palmer, Linda Turner, Laraine Frost and Stephen Murphy (our Quiz Master) and also The Krause Family who were kind enough to get on stage with their 8 year old daughter Ivy to talk about life with EB…

*Andrew’s Million Dollar Run has been postponed until Early 2017. For more information, check out The Million Dollar Run Facebook page.

Anyone interested in sponsorship opportunities for the event please contact fundraising@debra.org.au and we can forward on the information. For more information about Andrew’s Million Dollar Run you can check out his Website or Facebook Page.