Aleksandra Watts

For my mum, my daughter, myself and every woman out there

I'm doing this for my mum first. She's just come through treatment for breast cancer and is now cancer free, and I can't quite put into words what that means. Watching someone you love go through it is strange, especially from another country. She's in Bulgaria, and the care she received there has been genuinely amazing. It's made me realise how much the system around someone matters when they're going through this. Getting people to and from treatment, processing the blood and tumour samples that help us understand how cancer develops, paying the people in labs working on prevention and detection.

Every country needs that, and every system needs funding to keep it that way. I'm doing it for her, but also for my daughter, for myself and for every woman who might one day need that care to be there.

So I'm getting active for 31 minutes a day, every day in May. A small thing for a much bigger cause. Anything you can spare goes a long way and it means a lot.