When 15-year-old Eshan Bhuiyan developed a passion for running and decided to enter his first fun run – he knew it was the perfect opportunity to fundraise for the research done by his sister-in-law at Children's Medical Research Institute.

Eshan started out running as a fantastic way to keep fit and take a break from his studies at selective school, Baulkham Hills High School. He started out doing 5km Park Run events but soon set himself a new challenge of doing the 14km City to Surf in Sydney.

“I’ve been doing 4-5km runs a few times a week and I’ve been working up to 10km as a I find it more satisfying,’’ Eshan said. “Then I decided to do the City to Surf.’’

Eshan’s sister-in-law Shabita Rahman is a scientist at CMRI.

“CMRI had put up posters saying you could do the City2Surf as a fundraiser,’’ Shabita said. “Eshan was always updating me on his running PBs, and I said to him – you could run the City2Surf and fundraise for our research.

“He’s always shown a lot of interest in my job and he’s a great supporter of my research and as soon as I mentioned it, he signed up.

“He said he thought it was a great opportunity to help kids who were less fortunate than him.’’

Eshan said he was shocked to have raised $800 soon after signing up and sharing his fundraising page with family and friends. He is now hoping to raise even more as he keeps training for the August event.

To support Eshan visit: https://city2surf25.grassrootz.com/cmri/eshan-bhuiyan

If you’d like to fundraise for CMRI as the City to Surf, find out more here: https://city2surf25.grassrootz.com/cmri