It's one thing to read a story. It's another to hear that story, with all the emotion and personality of the storyteller intact.

Your donation to Lend Us Your Ear helps us collect the stories of participants, volunteers, and sponsors at fundraising events around the country. Their stories are shared with supporters around the world, offering encouragement and emphasizing the need to meet their goals.

• Shaylene is walking for everyone affected by breast cancer.
• Carolyn says walking is one of the most amazing, empowering things she’s ever done.
• This is Michelle’s third Avon Walk.
• Kathleen is walking for her sister, her aunt and her cousin.
• Kim O. wants to help.
• This is Judy M.’s first Avon Walk; she’s walking for a friend.
• Brenda is walking for everyone so we can end this fight.
• Lisa F. is walking for an incredible woman.
• Marilyn is a survivor; she is walking for everyone who supported her during her fight.