12/21/2013
Take a moment to read a message from our founder and president, Leah Miller. Learn about her experience with cancer and her desire to help those battling the disease now.
I am many things: a blessed wife and mother of three amazing children, a graphic designer … and a survivor of breast cancer – three times over! Not counting my miracle disappearance of a suspected, untreatable stage 4 cancer in my spine. When I gave up, God gave me my life back … faith, hope and love is why I am alive!
Will Give On Foundation is a vision I want to make a reality. In the beginning, I believed the foundation needed scads of money, mass-marketing and official headquarters to make a difference. Yes, those are things I still envision; however, my four-year battle with cancer put things in perpective. Every little thing counts.
During chemotherapy, apart from just not feeling myself, I had constant frustration in my inability to participate in simple tasks to maintain my home. Always one to find a better way of doing something, compassion and a fund-raising benefit for my family, spawned an idea. Although I would never have chosen chemotherapy as my muse, I became determined to help other breast cancer victims. I wanted to initiate a program to assist breast cancer patients with household maintenance until they are able to pick up the pace of their lives again.
Will Give On reached out to its first person in need in May 2013. We had less than $400 in our account. But I believed it could offer more than a bit of encouragement, so we donated all the funds to Ellen, a female cancer patient who, sadly, passed away a few months later. Her best friend, with whom I had worked through to reach her, told me she saw a light back in Ellen’s eyes for a brief time. I did not know Ellen, but each time I checked on her or talked about her, I was in tears. My tears were of love, in hopes of encouragement and of knowing the toll cancer takes on the soul, as well as the body.
The Will Give On Foundation, is still in its infancy stage. We need help to help others. To encourage others to live. Because every little thing counts.
My desire for Will Give On Foundation is to take care of the little, day-to-day chores that can amount to so much stress to cancer victims and family members, especially when trying to reclaim health and life during the struggles of cancer.
