EPISODE · Sep 22, 2023 · 1H
S4 Ep 26 - Purvi Shah - Artist, Entrepreneur, Educator, and Writer
from Heartistry · host Farah Yasmeen Shaikh
Purvi Shah identified a way to leverage her training and a career in design, along with a hard-won experience in dealing with pediatric cancer, and turned it into a compassion project. As Executive Director of Kids & Art Foundation @kidsandartorg Purvi helps families confront the disease by teaming children touched by cancer with artists. Purvi founded Kids & Art in 2008 after her son Amaey was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She sought a way to make a difference for her own child and thousands more like him. It also served to create some order in her overturned world. Amaey passed away after battling the disease for six of his nine years in 2011.In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness month, and to be inspired by these lived experiences, we urge you to listen, and to demonstrate your support for this organization, and the many that are doing work in this area.
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Purvi Shah identified a way to leverage her training and a career in design, along with a hard-won experience in dealing with pediatric cancer, and turned it into a compassion project. As Executive Director of Kids & Art Foundation @kidsandartorg Purvi helps families confront the disease by teaming children touched by cancer with artists. Purvi founded Kids & Art in 2008 after her son Amaey was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She sought a way to make a difference for her own child and thousands more like him. It also served to create some order in her overturned world. Amaey passed away after battling the disease for six of his nine years in 2011.In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness month, and to be inspired by these lived experiences, we urge you to listen, and to demonstrate your support for this organization, and the many that are doing work in this area.
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