A central Alberta toddler is going through his second battle with cancer, but he isn’t alone in his fight.

Little Drevan Din and his family have received overwhelming support from their community for the second time in his young life.

Watching Drevan play you couldn’t tell he has cancer.

“He just keeps going, like he just had chemo and he’s running around,” said his mom Shanti Din.

Around August 2015 Shanti noticed a bump on Drevan’s back, about the size of a golf ball.

She says she got it looked at immediately, but it took months to figure out exactly what was wrong. During that time the bump on his back grew into a painful lump the size of a grapefruit.

Then the diagnosis came at the end of that year; Drevan had stage 4 rhabdomyosarcoma which affects soft tissues and muscle.

“It was like the worst thing I had ever possibly heard,” said Shanti.

Drevan had only a 35 percent chance of survival.

Shanti explained she and Drevan made many trips to the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton for surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation for almost an entire year.

Despite the odds, Shanti said doctors told her Drevan’s cancer was in remission earlier this year.

But just a few weeks ago, the 3-year-old's check-up revealed the worst.

“I had this huge weight on my shoulders, like how am I going to get by? I thought everything was going to be okay and then getting the news of the relapse felt like our world was crushed all over again,” said Shanti.

She said another tumour was growing in the original site where the main tumour was before.

Shanti explained she just recently got a job after finishing upgrading some of her high school classes.

She said she had to quit now that she’ll be travelling back and forth to Edmonton again. “I actually posted on the Lacombe community watch page; I was asking if anyone had any spare bottles or anything, like empties, so that I could gather up extra gas money to get by.”

After that post, the community is stepping up again.

Last November, Shanti was struggling to find a set of good winter tires so she could safely get to and from the hospital in Edmonton.

Lacombe Ford donated a brand new set to her.

After hearing about Drevan’s relapse they invited her back to the shop, gave her nearly $1,000 cash and a little toy car for Drevan.

“He’s such a great little kid and it reached out to us, and tugged our heartstrings and we all wanted to do something,” said Lacombe Ford staff member Steven Klassen.

And at Fargeys Decorating Centre in Lacombe they’re created a new colour: Drevan Blue.

They’re asking community members to come in, pick up a free can and paint the town Drevan’s colour in the hopes of raising awareness for the Dins.

“The neighbours know each other, they really help each other, and really rally together in these types of circumstances,’ said staff member Nicole Petley, who added the store is also accepting donations for the Dins.

For the young mom seeing this show of support is overwhelming.

“It has meant a lot, it really has, and it’s really helping a lot,” said Shanti.

But that doesn’t even begin to cover just how much people are doing to help the family.

From bottle drives, to silent auctions and more - Lacombe and surrounding communities are rallying to do whatever they can to help Shanti make ends meet.

A silent auction and community BBQ is being held on July 30.