Reut's 14-year-old mother had cancer - so she started an exciting initiative

Reut Daniel saw her mother dealing with breast cancer, and it was not easy.

After she recovered, "it was clear to me that I wanted to find a way to say thank you to whoever was there for her."

That's how she did it

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04/07/2022

Monday, 04 July 2022, 13:07 Updated: 13:58

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A year and a half ago, Nurit Daniel was diagnosed with breast cancer.

"Fortunately, thanks to the vigilance of my doctor and an early examination, I was diagnosed with cancer at a very early stage, and I was spared even more difficult treatments than I went through," she says. "From the moment I was informed, I felt as if a rock had landed on me and the intensity of the initial blow was such that I could not contain it."

Aside from the natural fear of the disease and the consequences of the treatments, Nurit was very worried about her children.

"I did not know how to tell the children that my mother had cancer. I was afraid of their reaction and what my family and I were going to go through.

Make cancer an amazing lesson for life.

Nurit and Reut (Photo: courtesy of those photographed)

"Reut was in the market at first and it took her a while to internalize," Nurit said. "They were used to it. Although I was very tired during the screenings and there are still painkillers here and there, I also deal with them and try not to let it run my life."

After dealing with the recovery process, Reut felt the need to say thank you to all those factors that helped her mother cope with this complex path.

When she was given an end-of-year assignment as part of the “Equal” project, a leadership program for girls in which she is participating for the second year in her school, she understood how she was going to do it.

Reut turned to "Urban Youth" in Rehovot, an urban center for ages 12-18 that aims to promote the field of leadership and youth empowerment in the city, and asked the place's director to hold an exhibition where she will display paintings that she has all painted and put up for sale.

She had no doubt that she would seek to donate the money to the two bodies that have become a very important part of her mother's life since she contracted breast cancer and recovered a year and a half ago.

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"I hung 51 paintings of my own at the club, which I drew myself," says Reut.

She adds that "I published wherever I could the exhibition and sale. My mother also helped me and posted on her Facebook. I did not expect to be able to sell so much but it was a great success for me because I was able to raise 800 shekels."

I asked for 20 shekels for a painting, but people paid more.

Daniel's Paintings Exhibition (Photo: Photos by surfers, courtesy of Reut Daniel)

Half of the sale money was donated to One in Nine, an organization that specializes in breast cancer and provides support and assistance to women battling breast cancer and their relatives, and the other half to the Gamani Run organization - a nationwide venture that includes about 50 free community social running groups for women battling or recovering from breast cancer.

"Mom started running thanks to them and she takes a very active part in it. I think it also gave Mom a lot of strength in the whole recovery process."

Reut is a very sensitive girl and I think this contribution is actually her way of saying thank you for seeing a functioning and healthy mother today, "Nurit said proudly." "As a contributor to health and a significant reduction in side effects during and after the treatments and also in the personal part," Nurit adds, "the champion women strengthen and give each other strength because we still have a common camp."

Nurit added that "in my opinion, Reut received a very important lesson for life in all respects. First, that early testing can save lives and it is not worth waiting for 50 to go get tested, most of my friends who had breast cancer got it before that age, and she saw a different and more difficult coping. Second, how good it is in the heart to give back. "

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