PINCC Fundraiser
Dear PINCC volunteers and friends,

You have all been members of our teams, and helped train medical people and provide care to women in Central America and Africa.  What a wonderful group of intrepid travelers and dedicated workers you have been!  I’m personally very grateful to each of you for your help.  I’m writing to you all now, because PINCC needs your help this year again: not as team members, though that would be terrific, too, but to help us through this particularly difficult year.  PINCC is still working and even expanding, thanks to a generous patron who has enabled us to go to India this summer.  However, our 4 new sites in Africa, which we started this year, are in jeopardy, as we need to raise about $10,000 in order to return to them in February.  Our grants applications are being turned down, so far, as is the case for so many non-profits this year.  Of course, we have a plan: we are holding a Walk for Women of Africa, on Saturday, August 29, around Lake Merritt here in Oakland.  If we can get 200 people to participate and raise $50 average each, we can do it.  I’m writing to ask you if you can help us to make this Walkathon a big success, with little pocketbook pain!

The walk is 3.5 miles; it takes $15 for PINCC to see a woman in Africa for diagnosis, treatment, and training of medical people. So if you could each find 10 people who would donate that $15, you’d save 10 women and really help us!  We would love to have all of you in the S.F. Bay Area come out to walk with us.  For those of you who are scattered about the country (and Canada!), you can be Virtual Walkers, having one of our team here walk in your name.  You could also hold a Satellite Walk, walking with your friends in your area that day. I’m happy to send PINCC Walk T-shirts for anyone you recruit to walk with you, and you can download the attached flier to alter for your event. People can sign up on our website, or on our Facebook page, also found on our website,www.pincc.org, so it can mostly be done by email and web.

We have started the training of 52 medical staff in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda on our May/June trip this year, and saw 663 women in the process. TEN of them already had Stage IIB or higher cervical cancer, and have only a small chance of surviving. The completion of these missions would mean thousands of women every year will be prevented from having this terrible disease.  I hope I can count on you all to help us, once again, with this important work.

We look forward to hearing from you, and what you’ve been doing recently. You can become Friends on our Facebook site, so the others on your team can keep up too.

Many thanks, Kay Taylor and Pat Sax

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