Save Ivory Coast Daughter Fighting Breast Cancer

My niece by marriage, Magnigo Sarah Diomande, is in trouble. She needs money for a life-saving breast-cancer surgery NOW.

Born in Toufinga, Ivory Coast, Magnigo lives in Morrocco, and has been fighting breast cancer for years. She received chemotherapy treatments and went into remission, but the cancer has returned suddenly to threaten her life. She is too sick to work. Her doctors say she will not survive if she does not have radical surgery as soon as possible. They will not operate to remove cancerous tumors in her breast without payment up front. She needs $5000 to pay the hospital and surgery before they will operate.

I am making this plea for her to expand the reach beyond her African community, which has not been able to gather enough funds to help her. She is a lovely, vivacious young woman who deserves her life back.

In this video clip, we see an Ivory Coast journalist making a plea on Magnigo's behalf; speaking French and Mahou, an African dialect, she explains Magnigo's story, and asks everyone to give what they can. At the end, we see Magnigo, sick and desperate for help. She even displays her breast in the hope we will give her what she needs to survive. Her Facebook community has not generated enough money, and her time is running out.

Please help. This young woman needs support NOW if she is to survive breast cancer, a dangerous and fast-moving fatal disease.

I am available by email if more information is desired. Please give what you can now.

Lisa Diomande, New York City