Hundreds of people stood in line on Main Street and Reimer Avenue for lunch on Thursday to help support a Steinbach RCMP officer whose daughter is battling cancer.

Three-year-old Maia French, daughter of Constable Robert and Alicia French was diagnosed on April 6, 2017 with B-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a form of cancer which affects the B-cells of the immune system and causes a child to be more susceptible to infections, due to the lack of protection the immune system is then able to give.

Steinbach RCMP hosted a barbeque lunch on Thursday to raise funds for Maia's treatments and Constable Buffy Gardner says it was an absolutely incredible sight.

"It's completely overwhelming, my heart is completely touched. Everybody in the community is so supportive, coming out to help little Maia and her family get through this."

Gardner notes the RCMP is like one big family as they come from all over the country to work together as a team in each detachment.

"Constable French and I work directly on a watch together. So, we spend lots of time and I have [come] to know Maia well over the years. So, this is very personal and I want to do whatever we can as an RCMP family, to help their family out."

Maia has been leveled at very high risk and will be undergoing aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments over the next two years. Gardner adds they barbequed approximately 686 hot dogs and raised in excess of $7,500 for Maia and her family.