October is cancer awareness month for women; throughout the month huge awareness campaigns and drives take place, and it’s great to see that people come out and raise awareness and more importantly contribute to the various organisations which look for funding for research and development of cures for the various forms of cancer.
November, is cancer awareness month for men -- ladies first ofcourse! Movember (sic) is an annual month long awareness campaign which highlights men’s health issues, and more specifically prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is an illness which takes away a lot of lives every year, yet passes very easily under the radar. Every year more than 30,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK and every year about 10,000 men die because of prostate cancer in the UK. The staggering thing is that the numbers have remained at that level for many a year.
So, what role does Movember have to play in all of this? Well…
Mo Bros, supported by their Mo Sistas, start Movember (November 1st) clean shaven and then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their moustache. During Movember, each Mo Bro effectively becomes a walking billboard for men’s health and, via their Mo, raises essential funds and awareness for Movember’s men’s health partner – The Prostate Cancer Charity. At the end of Movember, a series of Gala Partés are held to thank Mo Bros and Sistas for their support and fund raising efforts.
In all of this -- I am extending my support with my twist to the Movember campaign. You see -- I don’t do mustaches; what I will do though is invert my ‘tache and stick it on my chin for the whole month. What’s more -- I’ll be styling it differently each week to highlight my mo’-ness. Ofcourse, like the charity: water campaign, I have a Mo’ campaign page too [check it out here], a Mo’ group with my Mo Bros and Mo Sistas [search for group "Bu Shanab" on the Movember home page], and also a Mo’ soundtrack to go with it too (see below).
Cancer research UK have tons of information and research information on Prostate Cancer; you can check it out here. To all you guys reading this -- make sure you eat cherry tomatoes every day or atleast half a tomato everyday; studies have proven that they reduce the risk of becoming victim to prostate cancer.
In the meantime, I can’t help but post this track -- it was just made for this…. check out the Mo’s on Puffy and Mace -- my cover version for Movember would be “Mo’ Money, No Problems”… roll it…
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Thanks for sharing the links – some real good info there.
Awareness is severely lacking, but thanks to entries like these, the word can be spread in a non-threatening that people respond to so much better.
Happy growing!
I think your non-moustaching can be forgiven in light of your awesome awareness-raising. Plus, that track is a classic.
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