Nueva Vida: Vote to enhance the lives of Latinas with cancer!
Imagine being in a foreign country, with no family and friends, working after hours to save money, not having insurance…and getting a cancer diagnosis.
It is tough to imagine. The reality is even harder.
Vote for Nueva Vida in The Women’s Foundation’s Leadership Awards online vote and we will make sure that more women get to services on time, so that Latinas don’t die because they didn’t find their cancer on time.
Every year we work hard so that 70 uninsured or under-insured, low-income Latinas with cancer get adequate services. We make sure there is some one to help them understand their diagnosis in their language and we give them support throughout their cancer experience.
Nueva Vida becomes a family for many of these women. Help us enhance the lives of many more women by voting for us!!!
Larisa Caicedo is executive director of Nueva Vida, a 2007 Leadership Awardee.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:58 am
As a Latina breast cancer survivor and the directorof a program that helps Latinas with cancer in NYC I have had the opportunity to see Nueva Vida in action at the NBCC Advocacy Conferences for quite a few years now. This special group of women care so very much for the Latinas they help get treatment and support for. Larisa and her group deserve this special leadership award because of their committment, determination, and kindness towards the many women they represent!
April 9th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
i am in rwanda in kigali .so i havenot any parents .are die in genocide so i need the parents in you fondetion i am in sinior 3 a in byimana science scool . in need mather for he.lping me in my scool and my lives