Kate Elizabeth Hallam - Joins Lifeis as an Ambassador to Lifeis Social Responsibility

 

• Imagine a young girl from a small town in England, the one that loves music, arts and performance
• Imagine that at the age of 14 this girl almost sacrifices her life to provide a bone marrow transplant to her older brother; later was honored with the U.K. House of Commons Bravery Award for donating  blood and bone-marrow to save the life of her brother
• Imagine the same girl at the age of 16 accidentally contracting  meningitis – and by miracle (rather by excellent job done by doctors), recovering and with great determination writing her story and mail to film producers
• Imagine that this girl was all of a sudden picked up and played the role of John Lennon’s girlfriend in a new movie?
• And the same girl, having a 624 entry, was picked as a model for Top Gear – the prime BBC TV program about cars and driving?
• At the age of  21 she wins 'The Looking good Style Contest' at Aintree race-course out of 700 people, winning a brand new Jaguar X-Type Estate worth 23,000 pounds
• And the same girl was found 12 times on the cover of Britain's biggest-selling  Take A Break women's Magazine, as well as placed at the 4^th in Miss England Contest, First place in Miss Commonwealth Charity and First place in Miss Great Britain Photogenic

And this not all – for such a nice young woman who is well below 30 years of age – Kate Elizabeth Hallam - whom we met at Lifeis Corporate responsibility Diwali celebration at the Spastics Society of Karnataka (SSK).

We had a chance to talk to Kate and explore in depth what were the reasons for her to come to SSK. In fact, it happens, that Kate’s vision and the life value somehow are in line with the Lifeis slogan: Changing Lives.

“I missed probably 5 years of my childhood… when I was 14 my brother was dying from leukemia, and they found that I was the perfect match with my bone marrow. Being only 14, and rather skinny, I need to accumulate a significant amount of bone marrow for my brother who was 13 years elder; it took more than 8 months. Than… you may imagine relief, feeling of pride and accomplishment, when after transplant I watched the tests showed that my bone marrow cells were eating Christian’s cancer cells… I was at the hospital – so I missed my school… and at the hospital, at the age of 14, I was seeing wonderful people suffering, they were less fortunate… passing away… and at that time it shocked me, but it inspired me to do charity work, so I said to me father – charity is for me…”

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