No 1028 Monday 17th - Sunday 23rd June 2024
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ery many congratulations to Maria Wilson of the Orihuela Costa Pink Ladies and Panthers on her recognition in the Birthday Honours list issue by King Charles on Saturday.
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Maria, who is the President of the Orihuela Costa Branch of the Asociacion Alicante Contra Cancer, Alicante, has been awarded a British Empire Medal by the King for services to Charity Fundraising in Spain. Following her surgery for breast cancer, Maria and a group of her girly friends set up a fund-raising group to help in the fight against cancer. They called the group Maria and the Pink Ladies and in June 2010 just a few months after her surgery they organised their first “Walk for Life” along the sea front in Torrevieja, Maria completed the walk in a wheelchair pushed by husband Carl.
MARIA RECOGNISED IN THE KING’S B I R T H D AY H O N O U R S
Due to the success of this they continued to organise events throughout the Orihuela Costa and soon became well known locally for their fund raising, to date they have raised almost e600,000, which has all been donated firstly to the AECC (Associacion Espagna Contra Cancer) but since 2015 the AACC (Associacion Alicante Contra Cancer).
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