Beacon Foundation benefit from cancer drug donation

Oct 14, 2009 News

In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the AVON Community Help Fund in collaboration with the Breast Cancer Awareness Committee (BCAC) yesterday donated $100,000 worth of cancer drugs to the Beacon Foundation, and has launched their Pink Hand Band publicity promotion.
This was disclosed, yesterday, by Chairperson of the AVON’s BCAC Mignon Bowen during a press briefing at the AVON Camp Street branch.
“In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month we think that it is important to contribute in a tangible way to the care of those patients who are fighting this disease and need the support of caring individuals to make their lives less painful each day.”
The theme for this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month is ‘Early Detection Saves Lives.’
A similar donation was made in 2007 to the Beacon Foundation, and the company is noted as being constant in the provision of hospice care for terminally ill cancer patients.
According to Bowen, between 90 and 100 women in Guyana are diagnosed with cancer each year, and that most of these women seek medical attention at the advanced stages of their cancer.
This, Bowen added, is what makes it even more challenging for treatment, care and recovery to take effect.
Following their activities last year, the Ministry of Health launched the initiative, which targets some 50,000 households in 2009.
“This survey will send trainers into households all across Guyana, to teach women how to do self examinations as part of the campaign for early detection for the disease,” according to Bowen.
The chairperson for the awareness committee at the press conference said, “Now is the time for positive action.”
She explained the Pink Hand Band project as a way “to continue to raise the awareness to give support to women affected by the disease, and to honour those breast cancer survivors.”
The Community Help Fund’s week of activities begins on October 18 with a special prayer and presentation on Breast Cancer at the Peter’s Hall Masjid, beginning at 10:00 hrs.
On the following Tuesday, an outreach programme is planned at the Anna Regina Multilateral School from 10:00 hrs, “to reach the underserved women in the rural areas.”
The annual ‘Walk for a Cure’ activity is also slated to kick off from the Parade Ground on October 24 at 06:30hrs.
T-shirts will also be on sale at the AVON office on Camp Street for $1000, as well as the Pink Hand Bands, which cost a $200.
The group of volunteer women present at yesterday’s press briefing is committed to bringing the message of education and awareness to the population, and feels that by knowing what is wrong with your breast, health may make the difference between being cured and living with the disease.
The committee also encourages women to have regular checks, and not to refer to home remedies, but to “seek medical intervention (diagnosis, treatment and care).”
It also works closely with the Ministry of Health cancer programmes, and has had many of what they term ‘interventions’ with the Ministry, through the Health Ministry’s Fairs.

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