NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. An organization by the name of The Get In Touch Foundation was founded by the late Mary Ann Wasil of Milford.
Wasil, who so many in the state came to love for enduring passion to help others, died this spring after pushing back against cancer for years. She had been a guest on Nyberg 3-and-a-half years ago.
Her eldest daughter, Betsy Nilan, has taken the reigns of her Mother’s breast health organization to make sure that girls know their bodies so they can get help if something isn’t right. Betsy is a walking billboard for all those fighting against breast cancer with her signature pink hair.
“The most positive person you’d ever meet. I mean you’d walk into a room, you’d immediately gravitate toward her. Just her energy and her joy, I think that’s the perfect word to describe her, her joy. Everything was about everybody else, she wanted to make everyone happy. She started The Get In Touch Foundation because she wanted to educate girls all around the world for free. She had breast cancer, but she was thinking about everyone else and what she could do for everyone else,” said Nilan.
Betsy says on their Daisy Wheel, there are eight tips on how to do a breast self exam. This program, that is free to schools all around the world, is called the Girls’ Program.
“School nurses and health educators can go to our website and give us their address and how many daisy wheels they would like and we’ll ship them right to their schools for free, which is exactly what my mom wanted it to be and with that, girls become their own health advocate,” said Nilan.
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