Aeryonnah Zura raises funds for Joanie’s Promise

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Neighbors | Submitted .Aeryonnah Zura presented a check for $60 to Juli Dulay (left), manager of the Joanie Abdu Comprehensive Breast Care Center. The money will help fund Joanie’s Promise, a program that provides free diagnostic breast services to uninsured and underinsured women..

Aeryonnah Zura likes to help other people, so she recently cut off her long hair so it could be made into wigs for sick children and took part in the Panerathon, a run that raises funds for the Joanie Abdu Comprehensive Breast Care Center.

Between haircuts and the annual Panerathon, she wanted to do something more. Encouraged by her parents, Sara and Jason Zura of Austintown, the 9-year-old third-grader made rubberband bracelets to sell at a craft show with all of the proceeds to benefit Humility of Mary Health Partners’ Joanie Abdu Comprehensive Breast Care Center.

Her dad built a display and her mom rented the table and Aeryonnah went to work, enticing buyers with the promise that whatever they spent would help uninsured and underinsured women in the Mahoning Valley receive the diagnostic breast services they need.

Zura decided to donating the money she raised to the Joanie Abdu Breast Center because it made sense.

“I have a lot of girls in my family,” Zura explained.

She has three younger sisters and she also has a great aunt, Joyce Russell, who works as Dr. Nancy Gantt’s medical assistant. Gantt is co-director of the Joanie Abdu Comprehensive Breast Care Center.

Zura presented a check for $60 to Juli Dulay, manager of the Joanie Abdu Comprehensive Breast Care Center on Feb. 14.

Next time, Zura says her goal is to raise $100 so she can split the proceeds between the Joanie Abdu Breast Center and another worthy organization.