A brave young Filipino expatriate, who has had cancer revisiting her a second time this year, has launched a special initiative of designing T-shirts to mark the UAE National Day in an expression of solidarity with all cancer survivors.
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00:00Hi, I'm Maria Francho Vizcaya, 43 years old, a mother of four, and I'm a cancer warrior.
00:13I first diagnosed in 2018 with breast cancer.
00:16I survived in 2019 and been active in breast cancer awareness the same year.
00:23Unfortunately, in April, we found that I had a relapse and confirmed in May that I have
00:29a static bilateral pulmonary nodules.
00:31This second battle is more challenging than the previous one, especially during pandemic.
00:36But as I have told myself, there's no other choice than to be strong.
00:42There were several difficulties I experienced, which inspired me to create different designs
00:49of T-shirts with messages of hope and encouragement for everyone, especially for survivors and
00:57warriors.
00:58This initiative helped a lot of patients and myself for so many ways.
01:05I would like to thank everyone who supported me in this initiative, especially our whole
01:11UAE family who proved that truly no one fights alone.
01:19And in commemoration of 49th UAE National Day, I would like to dedicate the T-shirt
01:27that I have designed for this year.
01:31It says, in this family, no one fights alone.
01:39Thank you, thank you so much.
01:41And to all my co-patients and co-survivors, and to everyone, I would like to encourage
01:50all of you to never give up, keep on fighting, and never lose hope.
01:59Through faith, we have hope.
02:02We can do this together.