The Lake Geneva Hope Walk hosted its seventh annual non-competitive walk along the Geneva Lake Shore path on Sept. 27, raising a total of $15,000 which was recently presented to the Aurora Health Care Breast Treatment Assistance Program.
The organization formed in 2008, after a member of a Lake Geneva book club was diagnosed with breast cancer. Fortunately, she was diagnosed early and had the insurance necessary to cover her treatments, according to a press release.
The release said other book club members – who were either breast cancer survivors themselves or had friends and family touched by cancer – decided to take action, put down their books and take up a worthy cause.
The group’s goal was to raise funds to help the uninsured or underinsured as they battle breast cancer and this action, according to the release, became what is known today as, The Lake Geneva Hope Walk.
As the Lake Geneva Hope Walk is organized and run solely by volunteers, all walkers are assured 100 percent of their registration fee is donated to help fight cancer. To date, the Hope Walk has donated over $81,000.
