A dream\u2026an adventure\u2026a wonderful reality!<\/p>\n
There were nights, when I would suddenly wake up without understanding the reason. I had a wonderful job at the peak of a career, an excellent earning and dear colleagues, what was I missing?<\/strong><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t have a dream!!<\/strong> This is what I was missing…and the awareness of working in a completely profit sector and without an objective left me totally unsatisfied.<\/p>\n In 2006 I had my first volunteering experience in Uganda, and that brightened up my life.<\/p>\n I understood what my dream was: working in Africa<\/strong> and devote all my energies to a socially useful project. But from where to start?<\/p>\n The opportunity of attending a Fundraising, Communication and Campaigning Master<\/a> aroused: the idea of going back to study again at the age of 47, with a very challenging job behind, scared me, but I decided to follow my heart and begin an adventure.<\/p>\n Courage, passion, determination, competences:<\/strong> these became the 4 guidelines of my new life. The first three helped me to follow my dream; the forth one helped me to reach the goal.<\/p>\n I decided then to leave my job and thanks to the Social Change School\u00a0Master, I had reached a level of knowledges in the non-profit sector that allowed me to found AFRON Oncology for Africa<\/a>.<\/strong> Today AFRON is about to turn 6 and has big numbers behind:<\/p>\n Free gynaecological screening and breast imaging for 13.000<\/strong> women<\/p>\n 259.000<\/strong> people became aware on the importance of prevention and early detection in the fight against cancer<\/p>\n 25<\/strong> medical missions of oncology training for local medical and nursing staff<\/p>\n The presence of AFRON in Uganda is a great opportunity for many women and children:<\/strong> being able to enjoy the right to health and having access to oncological prevention and care.<\/p>\n AFRON Oncologia per l\u2019Africa Onlus<\/p>\n info@afron.org<\/a> \u2013 www.afron.org<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A dream\u2026an adventure\u2026a wonderful reality! 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And so in 2010 finally the dream came true!<\/p>\n