“The Ganga is just the most beautiful and loving body of water. You realize that it brings life and death, and the acceptance of death. By the time I was at the end of the journey, people would say the Ganga can heal you. It did heal me. What I have come to understand is that I can be healed and still death is always a given thing,” says Michelle Baldwin, a terminal cancer patient who rode the Ganga recently to raise money for the killer disease.
Michelle is an adventurous white woman who did paddle-boating on the Ganga for 500 KMs from Rishikesh to Varanasi as a pilgrimage to raise $100,000 for a global campaign against cervical cancer.
Hats off to this woman who undertook an arduous journey to achieve her goal. As a matter of fact her campaign will not go a waste. It is no doubt disheartening to note that as many as 74,000 die of cervical cancer in India, leaving about 300,000 children without their mothers.
I wish an Indian woman had done a similar feat.
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