A group of moms have come together as 'Mombies' — Mom Zombies — to raise money for breast cancer research ahead of Halloween. Some of the moms are survivors themselves.
As Halloween looms up ahead, a cohort of Connecticut moms has been rehearsing their dreadful dance moves and creating creepy costumes in preparation for an annual neighborhood performance on October 31 — all to raise money for breast cancer research. 'It’s a bonding experience,' Kate Garin, 39, an accountant in Fairfield, Connecticut, told Fox News Digital.
Now it's almost like a mysterious thing,' Garin said. 'People wonder, ‘Oh, are you a Mombie? Are you guys dancing?’ It's fun. Even my own kids don't know what songs we’re dancing to each year. I think the mystery of it gets people enticed.' 'Putting the fun in it was always the key.
She wanted to create a unique surprise for the kids to show them we're fun and to show them that we can be exciting, too,' Gavin said. 'After the first year, she said, ‘Why don't we attach a little bit of goodness to it?’ And we started ‘Dance to Donate,’ which has created this big movement. We’ve been dancing to fund the Cancer Couch, which is an organization founded here in Fairfield.' Dr.
Scalera said Cancer Couch is a family endeavor. His children, Bella Scalera and Luca Scalera, who now are first-year students in college and in high school, have been involved from the get-go. 'We, as a family, cover all the expenses of the foundation,' Scalera said. Since 2017, the Mombies have raised over $170,000 for Cancer Couch — and that gives Scalera hope for the cause his 'intelligent, highly motivated, Division 1 athlete, psychologist' wife worked to establish.
The thing about metastatic breast cancer is it seems to really take so many powerful and amazing young women,' Scalera said. 'Rebecca was certainly a rock star,' Scalera added. 'Everything was possible with her. There were no limitations on what she could accomplish in life. She was the perfect kind of person to convert her challenge with metastatic breast cancer into a foundation that is really focused on making a change for others.
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