Fighting Breast Cancer Between the Sheets, the National Charity Girls Love Mail is a Heartwarming Story for October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Girls Love Mail, the national charity featured on The NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, People.com, Today.com, and The Steve Harvey Show is fighting breast cancer with sheets of paper and good penmanship. The mission of Girls Love Mail is to give the gift of hand-written letters to women going through breast cancer treatment. Since August 2011, they have handed out over 145,000 letters - that's 145,000 women across the country encouraged by kindness anyone can do. Letters come in from around the globe and go out through 165 cancer centers across the country, and the numbers are growing. (Video Clips at https://www.girlslovemail.com/category/television/)

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Sep 04, 2019, 13:00 ET


FOLSON, Calif., Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- FIGHT BREAST CANCER BETWEEN THE SHEETS

Girls Love Mail, the national charity featured on The NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, People.com, Today.com, and The Steve Harvey Show is fighting breast cancer with sheets of paper and good penmanship. The mission of Girls Love Mail is to give the gift of hand-written letters to women going through breast cancer treatment. Since August 2011, they have handed out over 145,000 letters – that's 145,000 women across the country encouraged by kindness anyone can do. Letters come in from around the globe and go out through 165 cancer centers across the country, and the numbers are growing.  (See media clips of the Nightly News and Steve Harvey Show at https://www.girlslovemail.com/category/television/)

BACK STORY:
In 2009, author and founder of Girls Love Mail, Gina L. Mulligan, was diagnosed with breast cancer. At the time Gina was working on an epistolary novel, a novel that is made up of all letters. While undergoing treatment and writing letters for her novel, she started receiving letters and cards filled with well wishes. Gina received over 200 letters, many from people she had never met. "Letters were all around me, and I realized letters are a precious gift with the power to heal," says Gina. She wanted to give back and started Girls Love Mail with the goal to get a letter to every woman diagnosed - that's 250,000 letters each year.

MAIN TALKING POINTS

  • Handed out over 145,000 letters since August 2011.
  • Miles of Mail 2019 - goal to collect 30,000 letters this year.
  • Released the touching gift book DEAR FRIEND, Letters of Encouragement, Humor, and Love for Women with Breast Cancer in 2017. It's been on the Amazon bestseller's list since the release!
  • Kindness is Universal. An uplifting activity for all ages.
  • Response from Letter Recipients. "I received a note from a complete stranger and it was so powerful. Now I keep the letter on my nightstand and read it every night before bed to gain strength. I'm amazed at the kindness in this world." – Jennie B.  

Contact: Gina L. Mulligan, Founder
Phone: 916.805.5094
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.GirlsLoveMail.com

SOURCE Girls Love Mail