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Sabans give $10 million to ‘lifesaving’ Free Clinic


URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/sabans_give_10_million_to_lifesaving_free_clinic_20080321/

Walking through the doors of the Los Angeles Free Clinic was much easier for Cheryl Saban last week than it was 25 years ago. Back then, she was a newly divorced mother of two young girls with little child support and a poor paying job as an office administrator. With an apartment, groceries, gas, clothes and all those other necessities, health insurance seemed a luxury she couldn't afford.

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