Erika Hayes, WCNC 9:21 PM. EST may additionally 14, 2016
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- it's been a couple years due to the fact that he performed for the Panthers, however running again DeAngelo Williams became lower back in Charlotte Saturday for whatever thing other than football.
Williams misplaced his mother, Sandra, to breast cancer in 2014, and now he is on a mission to shop numerous other ladies from dealing with the equal battle by myself.
"i was always taught, with my mom, she pointed out ' you can not whinge about whatever thing when you are no longer inclined to do whatever about it,'" Williams pointed out Saturday. "here's me doing some thing about it."
So he's honoring his mother's memory by means of assisting different ladies steer clear of the equal combat. girls like forty nine yr historical Candace Heath, who may now not had been capable of manage to pay for a mammogram in any other case.
"thank you Jesus, trigger I did not should pay for it, and that become a aid," Heath observed.
The aim of the adventure, called "fifty three amazing for Sandra," changed into to supply 53 deserving girls with a free screening. 53 as a result of that is how old Williams' mom, Sandra, was when she died.
"i am not doing this for publicity," Williams stated. "i am doing this for you, i am doing this for me, i am doing this for us to make us a more robust neighborhood and conclusion this combat in opposition t breast cancer."
Williams obtained a little assist in the battle Saturday -- the Charlotte Knights preserving its eleventh annual "purple Knights" game with avid gamers donning crimson jerseys, and making a gift crimson baseballs to advantage Carolinas Breast cancer Fund.
in addition to Charlotte, Williams will do the same issue in Pittsburgh, in Memphis where he went to college, and Arkansas the place he grew up.
His aim is to someday make it to each state and help as many ladies as viable."they're all a person's mom, they're all somebody's sister, someone's grandmothers, they are all someone's family member -- which is most crucial to all and sundry is those loved ones, and i are looking to protect that."
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