Jane CH Currie, Chairman, of Health Journeys Foundation, is a cancer survivor, who formed her calling in life. “Health Journeys is an organizationthat provides emotional and spiritual support to cancer patients,” Curries said from her New Zealand office. “I went through breast cancer myself.”
The Workbase Education Trust, serves as a literacy work place for the working class of New Zealand, by providing more then 40 programs in proficient literacy such as, information, advisory services and developmental opportunities to kiwi’s at no cost.
She said her journey first started with “my mother being diagnosed with grade two breast cancer at the age of 55.” At the time, she was finishing up her studies at the University, she was only 22 years old, when she discovered her mother was sick with cancer.
“The cancer had spread to her spine. She bravely wore her disease, frequently using morophine for the pain. And she died quietly and with dignity in 1990,” Currie said. Three years later, Currie’s cancer appeared in her breast. At the time, she was 33 years old.
“Thank god they didn’t keep me waiting too long for the diagnosis,” Currie added: “My medical family and friends encouraged me to undergo surgery (lumpectomy), these treatments saved me from falling further down the ‘cancer cliff.’ But it was the complementary treatment and self care information I learned from ‘Bernie Siegel’s book ‘Life, Medicine and Miracle’ that helped her save her life,” she said.
She later founded the Waikato Breast Cancer Trust. She studied at the University of Stellenbosch and received a Bachlor’s degree with honors in 1984. Currie also completed a post graduate work at Massey University in Business and Administration in 2000. She is married and has two children: Jennifer and James.
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