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Overseas-based Guyanese promoting cancer awareness

Oct 11, 2019 News

An overseas-based Guyanese who resides and works in Florida, USA, has embarked on promoting cancer awareness in the Belladrum community and environs, West Berbice.
The effort would be launched tomorrow with a Cancer Awareness Forum in the form of a rally which would see participants marching from Plantation Profit, just off the Abary Bridge, and proceeding in a westerly direction to Belladrum.
They will assemble in Belladrum Primary School Compound to be addressed by the Regional Health Officer, as well as personnel attached to the Cancer Institute in Georgetown. Registration begins at 8:00 hours at the start point in Profit after which the march would be on the way.
Corliss Saul-Reynolds, who hails from Belladrum, West Coast Berbice, is currently employed in the finance industry in the United States of America.
In an invited comment, Corliss said she has been pushed to promote cancer awareness because she has lost so far, three relatives to cancer; two of them in the early 30’s when they succumbed.
Additionally, through interaction with people during her many trips to Guyana she has become aware that many people seem not to have a reasonable awareness of cancer and how lives can be changed forever through such impact.
Corliss said that having recognised the need in the society in general, she felt the need to do whatever she can to bring about awareness, changing the life of people for better.
She has since got help from friends through donations in some cases. She is now hoping to reach a wide cross section of the community through the programme planned, and she is hopeful that the effort would grow over time so that more people be reached.
Through the awareness it is hoped that more people would be able to see the need to make adjustments where necessary through the knowledge that lifestyle does matter in relation to cancer. Further, the society needs to be aware that regular screening and early detection greatly increase the chances of people surviving cancer.

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