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Aug 31, 2007
"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much." --Mother Teresa
A Clinic for the Little Things that Matter Most
To talk. To be listened to. To unwind. When you are a low-income woman with cancer, it is often the little things -- a caring touch, a steaming cup of herbal tea -- that can make a difference. The Charlotte Maxwell Clinic addresses an invisible problem -- the economic and emotional fallout that cancer can have on low-income women already underserved by the health care system. The clinic -- a volunteer network over some 275 massage therapists, acupuncturists, social workers and homeopathy specialists in the Bay Area -- provides free alternative medicine treatments and other services to women for whom even a massage is an unthinkable, unaffordable luxury. Founded in 1989 with $4,000, the clinic, is named after Charlotte Maxwell, a social worker who died of ovarian cancer and believed that alternative therapies enhanced her final months.
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