The non-profit that provides free travel
(CNN) — When their sister Maria died from breast cancer in 2019, Alicia and Esther Tambe were determined to honor her in a way that would truly encapsulate the person she was.
As they began researching, the pair quickly learned that there was a history of breast cancer in their family and that Black women are disproportionately affected by the disease. In fact, Black women have a 41% higher death rate from breast cancer than White women, according to the American Cancer Society.
The more they researched, the more committed they became to finding an avenue to help support Black women living with breast cancer, as well as as breast cancer survivors, while incorporating one of their late sisters’s biggest passions — travel.
In August 2020, they co-founded Fight Through Flightsa non-profit that aims to empower and support the healing of Black women living with breast cancer and those who’ve
This is the Spiritan Asylum Initiative situated within the heart of Dublin is a service which unfortunately has grown increasingly more through the years and might be at its busiest time ever. I say unfortunately not due to the great work being carried out but because the need for this service has grown on account of war and torture inflicted on so many human beings as we speak. This service was began by the Spiritan’s and is the only specialist centre in Ireland for the care and rehabilitation of survivors of torture and extreme trauma. Here we see Religious and lay professionals working together to supply holistic care.
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