The UFC bantamweight revealed in a heartbreaking interview to Combate that she was running out of food at home since her entire family wasn’t able to work due to the coronavirus pandemic in Rio de Janeiro. Santana shares a house with her mother, six siblings, and her four-year-old daughter at the City of God favela, and had no money to buy groceries.
When UFC lightweight Alan Patrick read that story online, he decided to act. “Nuguette” told MMA Fighting he knew Santana and her family and felt he had to do something.
Patrick shared the link on a WhatsApp group with almost 80 UFC fighters hoping to gather donations for their fellow UFC athlete.