GirlTREK Crew Members Stand Up to Cancer, Together
When Rhonda received her cancer diagnosis in 2022, the world as she knew it shifted. The GirlTREK member from Georgia was facing one of the hardest battles of her life — and like so many people in that moment, she could have felt utterly alone. Her GirlTREK made sure she didn’t.
Something remarkable happened one Sisterhood Saturday — a day Rhonda will never forget. Her crew organized women and men in their community and at parks and trails across the country, to wear their superhero blue shirts and send one reaffirming message: no GirlTREK crew member has to fight cancer alone.
The walk was more than exercise. It was a wall of sisterhood standing between Rhonda and the fear that cancer brings. After the walk, Rhonda made a decision that took extraordinary courage. Rather than wait for chemotherapy to take her hair on its own terms, she chose to take control — and she shaved her head. But she didn't do that alone either. Her daughter and her grandson sat beside her and shaved their heads too, wrapping her in the kind of love that words can barely hold.
That love carried her forward.
Four years later, Rhonda still can't speak about that day without tears rolling down her face. Not tears of sorrow — but tears of joy at what it feels like to be truly seen and held by a community. That outpouring of support gave her the encouragement and strength she needed to walk into the next phase of her treatment — and keep going.
Rhonda's story is not unique within GirlTREK. It is the point of GirlTREK.
When you support GirlTREK, you are funding the infrastructure of care that shows up when life gets harder — the walks, the crews, and the community care that shows up when a member is facing her darkest moments.
Nobody should have to fight cancer alone. And with your support, they won't.
