Sisters Alicia and Esther Tambe are changing the lives of Black women in the United States with their nonprofit organization Fight Through Flights. With this project they help Black women diagnosed with breast cancer travel the world with their loved ones as they embark on their healing journey, Travel Noire reports.
Breast cancer has decimated the Black community at a rapid rate for years, with Black women having a 40 percent higher chance of dying compared to white women, according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
And it doesn’t begin and end with diagnosis and treatment—a reality that the Tambe sisters are all too familiar with after losing their sister, Maria, and a cousin to the disease. “It really shook up our family,” they said. “It also opened our eyes to this silent killer in our community. We didn’t realize just how much breast cancer impacted Black women.”
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