The following post was submitted by Hanaa Ismail, program coordinator at the Suzanne Mubarak Regional Center for Women’s Health and Development in Alexandria, Egypt.
To increase awareness about breast cancer and provide women with information about breast self-exams, we set up a stand at the Carrefour City Centre Shopping Mall in Alexandria, Egypt. For three days, from 10 a.m. to midnight, members of our team handed out brochures to women and, when the women asked, they were taught how to do a breast self examination.
Our stand was decorated with pink balloons and we gave out pink ribbons and pink sweets to women and their families. In addition, free mammograms were offered at our clinic. We had a large flow of requests for further consultations with physicians. Our team was pleased that we reached nearly 1,500 women through this event and we also received excellent media coverage from local news stations. Read more!
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