Susan G. Komen For The Cure® Grants Gift To American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) To Assist Rural Hungarian Women

Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists, today awarded a USD $100,000 grant to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a 94-year-old, overseas, humanitarian aid organization which works in more than 60 countries worldwide. The grant, which solidifies the fifth year of partnership between Komen for the Cure® and JDC, will help sustain the critical work of the Women’s Health Empowerment Program (WHEP), an initiative to promote breast cancer awareness and early detection. It also will expand the program’s reach into Hungary’s rural communities, where access to screening facilities and breast health information is extremely limited.