In the first half of this year I had came up with this idea, to raise money and take the earnings that I came up with and donate to our local cancer closet. When I had first came up with this idea, I had not been personally affected by cancer nor had anyone in my family. I knew that cancer had greatly affected many people, and that's why I wanted to help because it was the least that I could do. My first semester I did not get to do much that I wanted to do, so I decided to carry the same project over to this next semester.
As I began doing this project second semester, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer (April). It was a lot harder to deal with than I had really thought because I had not been affected personally before. Seeing people battling cancer with such high hopes and showing strength makes me want to raise money for people fighting even more. It is not an easy thing that people go through and every bit that you do can help.
There are many other cancers that are diagnosed, but this is a representation of common ones. The lavender is there which also represents all cancers in general.