Annual Women Breast Cancer Awareness $500k in donations

The Walk For Women Breast Cancer Awareness Walk takes place

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on the Island every year. The event is run entirely by volunteers and aims to help women in the lower Rio Grande Valley.

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As they fight breast cancer, the organisation gives financial, prosthetic, and diagnostic assistance.

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"We are in our 19th year". We're overjoyed.

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And in the years since we started this, we've given about $500,000 to valley women facing breast cancer,

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event organiser Rees Langston told ValleyCentral.

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In addition, $50,000 was given to the Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation for mammograms,

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and more than $10,000 was given to other medical organisations, including the American Cancer Society.

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