If not for the accident, I wouldn’t know I had cancer

Hannah Mwangi (in a blue shirt and cap) with Lady Hope Wellness funder Veronica Njoroge (seated) and a friend

Everyone Hannah Mwangi knew cut links with her when they discovered that she had lung cancer. But now, the 52-year-old has found family at a home that shelters cancer patients who have nowhere else to call home.

I was involved in a motorbike accident in April 2017 on my way home from a grocery stall I ran in Nyahururu. I left the scene with bruises and I even walked home that evening knowing that a massage was all I needed to nurse my injuries. But when I woke up the following day with blood oozing from my mouth, I was convinced that I had sustained more than the few bruises, and had internal injuries.