This is in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Bridgestone also ran a Facebook page facebook.com/pinkcapdrive to encourage followers to get on board and share moving stories from those who have been affected by the disease, to push the message out about early detection being an important key to fighting breast cancer.
Bridgestone’s “Pink your ride” campaign for 2015 has raised nearly $50,000 for The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation (NZBCF), with almost $600,000 being raised since the campaign began in 2008.
Pink for Cancer hosted the event at the Northside Seventh-day Adventist Church. The lengths of time stretched from 10 weeks to 35 years. Between them, they are hoping to raise £500 for what is the UK’s largest breast cancer charity. When she announced it’d been 35 years since her diagnosis, the crowd whooped and stood in an extended applause.
The group, who work in different departments at Debenhams in The Lanes, stripped down to their underwear in front of passing shoppers in a bid to raise money for Breast Cancer Now.
Harris said she had a mastectomy.
“In October you see the football players wearing the pink shoes and gloves on the field”, said Capt. Anthony Gleis, officer in charge of S-5 for Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 166 Reinforced. Her doctors didn’t find the cancer had reached her lymph nodes. “Thus, all our people should know that cancer is a reality and is affecting many people in our society and it will be better that each and every one undergoes screening as early as possible to know his or her cancer status”, Pohamba said.
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The idea was first discussed about a month ago and, despite a few being apprehensive at first, they eventually agreed to it.
