Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg will always remember his toddler's bravery after she fell ill with leukemia.
Diagnosed in 1980, Sara Goldberg would routinely tell her fellow young patients, "Don't cry," her father says. And she would reassure him by saying, "It's okay, Daddy."
Sara died at age 2. "Thirty-one years later," says her father, "I still cry."
It's the memory of Sara's courageous battle that drove Goldberg to found Kids Kicking Cancer, a nonprofit dedicated to providing children with cancer and other serious diseases with free lessons in martial arts, breathing techniques and meditation.
To date Goldberg, 56 – a black belt in Choi Kwon Do who teaches at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit – has provided free classes to 6,100 children. Since March 2012, Kids Kicking Cancer has also expanded with programs in Israel, London, Ontario, Italy and New York.
source: People.com