Former NFL Participant DeAngelo Williams Honors His Late Mom

DeAngelo Williams misplaced his mom, Sandra Hill, to breast most cancers in 2014. She was solely 53 years outdated. 

Williams has additionally misplaced 4 aunts to the illness, all earlier than they reached the age of 50. 

These losses, coupled together with his platform as a former athlete, spurred the previous Carolina Panthers and Pittsburgh Steelers participant into motion. 

Based on Folks Journal, Williams wished a technique to honor his mom and aunts and determined to fund mammogram screenings for girls throughout the nation. 

By way of his nonprofit, The DeAngelo Williams Basis, he has paid for 500 screenings at hospitals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Memphis, Tennessee; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Since his mom’s prognosis, Williams has change into an advocate for breast most cancers consciousness, and through his enjoying days he would present help throughout breast most cancers consciousness month (October) by dying his hair pink and carrying pink cleats. 

Relating to the work his basis has completed, Williams mentioned:

“To have the ability to assist all these girls is superb. This may be life-changing for these girls. We’re enabling them to get this care that nobody ought to ever be denied or not have entry to.”

Williams and his basis’s aim is to host free mammogram screenings in all 50 states.

“DeAngelo desires to make sure that no lady (or man) fights breast most cancers alone,” Risalyn Williams, his spouse and government director of the DeAngelo Williams Basis, mentioned.