Walk With Sally

I have been very privileged over the last year to partner with this incredible, amazing Nonprofit and just recently I began mentoring through the group. Walk with Sally is an organization that provides mentoring support programs and services to children (ages 7 – 17) who have parents or siblings with cancer. In many cases, the children in the program have one or both parents going through end stage cancer and are in need of a friend who has been through a similar trial with cancer.
Having gone through the same thing at 22, when my Mom passed away after a five year battle with cancer, this has a been a touching way to give back and honor the amazing people who supported me through one of the most challenging periods of my life.
Being a mentor is not only about the disease, but is one on one time with a child who for all intents just wants to be a kid. WWS organizes many events like for the mentors and mentees like ice-​skating at Toyota Center, attending baseball games, star-​watching at the Observatory, or just hanging out and being kids together.
As we reflect on the New Year’s and our goals to be more selfless and to make a change in the world, I wanted to post this business as an awareness and also as a suggestion for making a positive impact in the New Year.
For requesting more information on mentorship, all you have to do is visit the website and perhaps talk with the program director Zina about attending an information session. There are children waiting for matches all throughout LA, so please don’t worry about proximity to the the Torrance office.
This has been a great organization and an experience that continues to give back to me much more than I could put into words or give to it. Please check it out and if cancer has touched your life (as it has most of ours), think about mentorship or supporting this great local organization.