The brother of Dame Deborah James said she cared more about the number of people she was ‘touching’ with her cancer awareness campaign than the amount of money she raised for charity 💖
He shared: ‘We were all focused on that first £1 million that was publicised but I remember Debs turning around and saying, “Now [there] is almost 330,000 individual donations.”
‘And I think she kind of just brought home that it was about the engagement, not kind of, you know, the exact number.’ Saying that her sister was ‘the same as she’s always been’ during her cancer battle and public fundraising efforts, she added: ‘I don’t think the cancer changed her actually, either. So that was the nice thing. It was her personality [in her public work].’Her brother added: ‘I think it’s not, like, specific images, kind of just the annoying – but very caring – things [she did]. Make sure that you kind of live everything really well.
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