Thousands of volunteers are expected to join the annual Susan G. Komen walk on Sunday to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer patients as the nonprofit continues to build participation following the pandemic.
The annual walk at Fashion Island in Newport Beach was drawing 10,000 participants before the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the fundraiser for two years, said Megan Klink, vice president of Komen West Region. Last year, the first year back, the event attracted 4,000 people and this year about 5,000 are expected, Klink said.
Klink said the annual walk is ``an essential fundraiser for the work that we do, but it's also an opportunity for this community to come together and celebrate their lives and to honor those that we've lost and just to connect and be together. It's really powerful.”Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.
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