Movember follow up

Just wanted to have a little follow up about Movember.
As usual, it was a lot of fun and a lot of money was raised towards men’s health.
$15,517,230 in Australia alone to be exact!
And check out this voted winner of a mo attempt:

Movember – Day 9

Its Day 9 of Movember and finally the red mo is starting to show some life.

Movember Day 9

No its true, there is a mo there! The photo really doesn’t do it justice. You can’t even see that it runs along the jaw and up into sideburns. Maybe another week.
So come on, keep donating. Remember, this is a genuine great cause.

Movember Update day 2

Yes yes, day 2. I did take a photo for day 1 but I have lost the damn cable to transfer it to the pc.
Here is day 2 photo from a mobile phone.

Movember Day 2

Remember boys and girls, Movember is all about raising awareness for men’s health. So get donating!
http://au.movember.com/mospace/1380601

Movember

It is getting close to that time of the year. Movember is almost upon us.
For people who don’t know what Movember is;

Movember (the month formerly known as November) is an annual charity event held during November. At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants, known as Mo Bros, have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo, raising money along the way to benefit men’s health – specifically prostate cancer and male depression.

I again will be partaking in this fundraiser (think its the 3rd year for me) and I hope you can spare some change to this event. So far I have stayed clean shaven for the last two months in anticipation for Movember and I will try to get pics up as the month progresses.

“How do I donate?” I hear you say.
Easy – go HERE. Then go to individual and enter my registeration code 1380601
. You can follow my progress here as well.

Easy. You can donate via credit card or paypal through the website.
You can also register yourself and challenge yourself to grow a Mo for charity (I’m looking at you Frogspoon)

This a great cause and a lot of fun. So take part, whether it be growing a mo or donating to a mo bro.

Breast Cancer Awarness + Mt Franklin

Now breast cancer awareness is very important. Breast cancer does take a lot of lives and with earlier detection, that number can be reduced. There are many many campaigns out their spreading the good word to all women about the risks and what they should do and so on.
But this would be my favourite advert I have seen:

On cancer awarness, I understand this month is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Great, fabulous. With this combined with everything that is pink, how could anyone not get the message.
My question is, why doesn’t prostate cancer get the same amount or Awareness campaigns as breast cancer does? Yes we have Movember, of which I will be a participant again, but that seems to be all Prostate Cancer gets as an awareness campaign.
Now I realise brown ribbons or brown cricket bat handles (just saw that blue is the colour used – edit) would not be that attractive but I would have thought, men being men, there would need to be a stronger campaign. Men in general do not look for early signs of being unwell and usually only get to a doctor when missing a limb.
I just feel their should be a stronger push to get blokes aware of this and make sure everyone plays a part in Movember..

As many men die from prostate cancer as women die from breast cancer but… a national survey by PCFA in 2002 showed that while 78% of women felt well informed about breast cancer – only 52% of men felt informed about prostate cancer

Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia