(Savannah, Ga.) Helen Morrell is a great example of compassion.
Needle and yarn in hand, she sits quietly in her Coffee Bluff home doing what she enjoys.
"I just love people myself. I try to do anything I can to help anybody."
crocheting since she was 14 Helen uses her talent to support breast cancer survivors. It's a project she got from her sibling in North Carolina.
"My sister was making them putting them in doctor's offices and I saw it."
Ten minutes is all it takes to make the beautiful breast cancer ribbon.
"After I crochet it then I usually put the little white ribbon here and a ball on it."
Helen decided to help raise awareness about the disease by selling the ribbons.
This thread would link her to the Lewis Cancer Pavilion.
Helen donated money to provide hope.
"I hope they will be healed or get better and won't have to suffer and stuff like that, and by you coming out here talking I hope other people will feel the same way and maybe they will get more people that will help."
People working behind these walls to save lives call Helen's gift touching.
"We have patients that you now that little bit may be their next tank of gas to their treatment or their next dietary supplement or something that makes their quality of life better that they otherwise would not be able to afford. so we were just so thankful and just really tickled to get that from her," say Oncology Patient Navigator, Krista Aliffi.
The 72-year-old doesn't have a history of breast cancer in her family, but it's her history of giving that she believes will make a difference in her community.
Helen says she plans to keep making the breast cancer ribbons because there's nothing that makes her happier than raising money to support survivors.
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