Matt Skinner, Co-Chair of the Movember committee in Vancouver, thinks Movember continues to be successful because it’s a fun way to get men talking.
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More men die from prostate cancer each year in Australia than women die from breast cancer around 3,300 fathers, sons, partners and brothers are lost to the disease every year.
This November a global organization has a special challenge for all men out there. They’re also encouraged to document their mustache growth on social media and spread the word about the movement.
Each Mo Bro must begin November 1 with a clean-shaven face.
This year the campaign is introducing the MOVE, 30-day fitness challenge.
Movember Canada had 115,358 participants in 2014, who combined to fundraise over $24 million. It has already raised $650 million and has funded over 1000 health-based programs focused particularly on the four problems mentioned above. In 2014 4,746,905 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas had participated, and The Movember Foundation was ranked 72nd out of the top 500 NGOs in the world by Global_Geneva.
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She said: “Men and boys face unbelievable pressure to live up an archaic stereotype of what it means to be a man, and in the process they neglect their own mental and physical health”.
