This is a pretty amazing story.
Over the weekend, Linda, the President of the Board of Directors of "In Our Lifetime" (the non-profit under which The Immediate Impact Walk was created) told a few of us about a young San Francisco woman, in her 30's who is in the end stage of metastatic breast cancer. She requires 24 hour care and cannot afford it. She needs help paying her rent and utilities. She has tapped out other resources but her need for care and financial assistance has increased.
Linda wondered how our non-profit could help ease the burden of some of her financial worries.
She set up a wepay page, and asked us to spread the word. She called the page a "Compassion Fund for a Young Woman with End Stage Breast Cancer". The goal was to raise $4,300 to cover rent and utilities for two months.
The page was shared via emails to friends and Facebook posts. Within 24 hours, we were only a couple of hundred dollars away from meeting the goal! Amazing. The spirit of giving, and spreading love and compassion came shining through.
I just looked at the page - only two days after it was launched, and I see 68 individual donors have now raised $4,585.00!
Many thanks to all who opened their hearts and their wallets to help this young woman who we have never met. I can't imagine the pain and struggles that she must be going through, and I could only hope that if I were ever in the same situation, that others would find a way to help.
If you are interested in learning more about this compassion fund please click here for more information.
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