Tichina Arnold Advocates for Lupus Awareness Through the We Win Foundation!

We may know her as Pam from Martin or Rochelle the funny mom on Everybody Hates Chris, but get to know Tichina Arnold for her role as an advocate for Lupus Awareness through her nonprofit We Win Foundation. May among being mental health awareness month and Foster Care and Adoption Awareness Month is also Lupus Awareness month. Two-time NAACP Image Award winning actress is standing on the frontline alongside her sibling in the fight against a debilitating disease Lupus that affects their family and the families of more and more Black women.

In an interview with BlackDoctor.org Tichina states “My sister and I started the We Win Foundation there’s so many women of color and men that suffer from lupus,” Arnold shared in a recent interview with Sway in the Morning. “Everybody knows somebody that has lupus and it is affecting women of color – 3 out of 5 women of color are affected by it.”

Arnold’s sister, Zenay Arnold, has seven diseases and lupus was the last diagnosis added to her long list. The #ArnoldSisters – as they frequently hashtag their dynamic duo on social media – created the We Win Foundation in 2013 to bring awareness to lupus and to help people become lupus survivors like Zenay, who’s been living with it for 10 years.

More than 5 million people living with lupus around the world. Lupus is more pervasive and more severe than people think, and has an impact that the public doesn’t realize. In fact, research shows that nearly two-thirds of the public knows little or nothing about lupus. So what is Lupus exactly, Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body (skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body). Chronic means that the signs and symptoms tend to last longer than six weeks and often for many years. Lupus is a complex autoimmune disease with no cure to date.

The mission of the We Win Foundation is restoring hope, strength and comfort for the individual, family and caregiver of Lupus and other autoimmune diseases. The “WE WIN” foundation was founded in 2013, it was formed to help individuals, as well as the families and caregivers who support those suffering with the “Cruel Mystery” (Lupus) and other related autoimmune diseases.

This foundation provides:Holistic health, nutrition and lifestyle programs, Counseling services,Financial Assistance, LupieYoga Program and they are seeking to provide grants for alternative health treatments such as Stem Cell Therapy and Acupuncture. We Win Foundation co-founder Zenay has put together a kit” Z’s Survival Kit” that helps her “survive” during Lupus flares. The kit includes: compression gloves, squeeze balls, hand warmers and juicing recipes specifically for Lupus and other autoimmune diseases or symptoms.

You can join the foundation on they will be participating as a team in the Los Angeles Walk with Us to Cure Lupus! Walk with Us to Cure Lupus is the Alliance for Lupus Research’s (ALR) signature national fundraising program. As a team, friends, family and colleagues come together to raise awareness of lupus and funds for lupus research. To learn more and register to walk with the We Win Foundation click here! To learn more about the We Win Foundation visit www.wewinfoundation.org!