Archives for August 2022

Breast Cancer Awareness

HERS Breast Cancer Foundation strives every day to bring HERS – Hope, Empowerment, Renewal, and Support — to our patients. We do this by offering products and services in a setting that is welcoming and compassionate. Our Program Stores are truly “a soft place to fall.”

Tina Fernandez Steckler is the Executive Director of HERS the Breast Cancer Foundation. October is breast cancer awareness month and Tina will discuss the work of HERS as well as one of their major fundraisers the walk/run event.

Moina Shaiq will speak on:

Meet a Muslim

Like many Americans, Moina was profoundly affected by the events of September 11th, 2001, but as an Arab-American, she was concerned that her Muslim faith could make her a target of hostility. So she dove head first into volunteerism in her hometown. But after the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, she began to feel that community service wasn’t enough. She decided to take action, and placed an ad in the local paper inviting people she didn’t know to join her at a neighborhood café and “Meet a Muslim” in person. One hundred people showed up at that first meeting – and her gatherings have been growing ever since.

Moina Shaiq has been living in the United States for 43 years. She is a mother of four children and a grandmother of six. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Economics. She is also a community activist, devoting herself to building bridges of understanding.