Latest update November 13th, 2024 1:00 AM
‘Women on the Move’ hosts successful Cancer Awareness Walk
In what could best be described, as a phenomenal success, the “Women on the Move”, on Sunday, hosted its nineteenth Cancer Awareness Walk, run and jog. The event attracted a mammoth turnout, with participants ranging in age from two to ninety-three.
The youngest participant ‘walked’ on his father’s shoulders.
Judy Gravesande-Noel, who initiated the walk in 2000, said that she continues to be overwhelmed by the response to the event, as the years go by.
“From the time we started the Awareness Walk in 2000, the activity has certainly grown phenomenally. To God be the glory!”
Ms. Gravesande-Noel expressed heartfelt gratitude to all who contributed to make the event a success, including GTT, who donated the jerseys.
Reflecting on the Genesis of the walk, she quipped, “It was back in 2000 that I came up with the idea of doing this event here, after witnessing a similar event in Georgetown.
“I spoke with Gleneth Arthur, a founder member of “Women on the Move”, and she became very enthused with the idea, so we ran with it.”
She related that other women like Camille Cummings, Wanda Richmond and Mayfield Taylor-Trim later joined the team.
As the years went by, other women joined the group, Gravesande-Noel added.
Recently, another activity, the candle light vigil, was added. It has now become the precursor to the walk, and allows persons to reflect and share memories of their loved ones who succumbed to the disease.
This year’s vigil was held on Thursday at the Linden/ Georgetown bus park.
Some groups that took to the streets on Sunday, to walk run or jog, were the Linden Enterprise Network (LEN), Linden Utility Cooperative Society Ltd (LUSCSL), Linden Hospital Complex, Police from E Division, 104.3 Power fm, schools and health centres.
As has become customary, the main starting point, was at LUSCSL on Burnham Drive, Wismar.
This saw scores of people, crossing over from Mackenzie, to join the mammoth crowd that had congregated at Wismar from the break of dawn.
From there, a sea of pink, trekked along Burnham Drive, over the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge, then down the Washer Pond Road and Republic Avenue.
The event culminated at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground for sensitisation talks about the disease and judging.
The One Mile Primary School copped the ‘Best Dress’ prize, while ‘E’ Division copped the ‘Best Chant’ prize. Other prizes presented were for largest contingent and best banner.
For the first time this year, survivors, apart from receiving the usual hampers, were also presented with plants, by Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Valerie Adams- Yearwood.
The Minister said that it was her way of encouraging them to indulge in gardening, which is a good form of exercise.
Plants, she acknowledged, also play a useful role, in alternative medicine.
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