October 30, 2008
Delivering Dignity
Founder of small charity provides assistance to needy cancer patients even as her group struggles
It is 1:30 on a Friday afternoon, and Lorna Khawaja is stuck in traffic on a Chicago freeway. She is on her way to visit a client, a woman who recently lost her husband to pancreatic cancer at the age of 63.
Ms. Khawaja, 44, founded and heads No Wooden Nickels, a nonprofit organization in nearby Evanston, Ill., whose mission is to provide assistance with living expenses to low-income cancer patients during their treatment. Ms. Khawaja tries to visit some of the people her charity
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