Houston Community News >> Chinese Cancer Memorial Foundation
5/13/2007 Houston-- The Chinese Cancer Memorial Foundation (CCMF) was founded in 1996 by Dr. Paul Huang, a successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, in memory of his late wife Daisy Ku Huang who died of stomach cancer in February, 1996 at the age of 46. The organization, originally named the Daisy Ku Huang Memorial Foundation, then changed to the Chinese Cancer Memorial Foundation (CCMF), so that it could welcome other families who lost their loved ones to cancer and invite them to join Dr. Huang to be under the new CCMF's charter to help cancer patients either directly or through other cancer-related organizations.
Besides financial aid to low-income cancer patients, CCMF also financially supports other cancer-related organizations, such as the American Cancer Society Nothern California Chinese Unit and the Asian Liver Center of the Stanford University Medical Center, to sponsor cancer prevention, education and health fairs for new low-income Chinese immigrants. All requests and projects are carefully screened and evaluated by 7 board members, chaired by Dr. Paul Huang.
CCMF is a small organization. It does not have any staff members; all board members are volunteers. They do whatever they can within their capability to help cancer patients and other organizations to fight cancer together. As of Sept. 2005, service activities included emergency financial aid to 38 cancer patients, and providing health screening for over 1,000 new low-income uninsured Chinese immigrants.
Contact Kitty Geiger at kitty.geiger@sbcglobal.net for more info.