Pat’s Point of View

My wife is helping to organise a fundraising event for a friend with cancer:

A friend of my family, Maria Azzopardi (an ex-OLSH student) has cancer. She’s only 35 years old, has a husband and two children and may not live past Christmas. Her cancer is secondary and whilst it started out as breast cancer, it has now spread to her spine.

We’re doing some fundraising for Maria for her treatment and also to help her to spend as much time with her young children before her time comes to an end.

There will be a buffet dinner on August 4th with my brother Paul Fenech performing his Elvis show to help the cause.

I have attached a letter explaining what we are doing and trying to achieve. It’d be great if you could try to get anyone from work to buy tickets to the dinner, donate money or your company to donate vouchers, goods or cash which can be either raffled off on the night or auctioned.

Maria also has a website, there is an invite on the website to the dinner buffet. The website also explains her journey with cancer and I promise it’ll reduce you to tears even though she’s very positive and optimistic—it’s just the saddest story, one which I hope never to write.

On another note. I beg you all to take notice of the first paragraph of Maria’s story. Whilst she may not have thought it was anything serious at first, catching cancer early (of any type) is so important. If only we had the power to turn back time.

I’m sorry for the horrible message—but cancer is horrible. We’re all doing all we can to help out a friend in need. Any help you can offer will be much appreciated.

www.handz4mazz.com

Thank you for your time.

Jennifer Kennedy

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