By Angela Echefu
In furtherance of its sensitisation campaign against breast and cervical cancers, My Body My Asset Cancer Foundation, a non- governmental group, organised a football match between its team, the Eagles and Galaxy Ladies of Nwanyi Ezza Foundation under the theme:
Bring Us Cancer Awareness Friendly Football Match .
This is the second segment of this year’s campaign. The first campaign was held on June 5.
The event was held on October 2 at 9 am at Santos Field, in Akowonjo area of Lagos. It was one of the programmes lined up to bring awareness to the doorstep of women on the dangers associated with cancers of all forms to make life worth living for the women folk.
The Chairman of the Board of Trustee of the Foundation, Mr Onyemaonyilo Godfrey Aroh said: ‘’We encourage everyone to embrace the awareness and campaign and get screened. We believe that prevention is better and cheaper and we hope to build a generation of strong women who will like above all forms of cancer’’.
Speaking in a similar fashion, a cancer survivor and head of the Foundation, Mrs Franca Eze said:’’ It feels nice to be well and healthy. A woman whose reproductive organs are sick is not functional. Get the necessary information to stay healthy. Ignorance is not an excuse’’.
She said that the football match which lasted for 45minutes was preceded by ‘Red carpet at 8am.
She urged every woman to be part of the programmes in future.
Other features of the programme included how to live well, health is wealth, breast and cervical cancer awareness. Awards were given and many were screened especially women from churches and markets. Some past centres where screenings had been conducted included Healing Stripes Cancer Center Surulere, Blessing & Kelvin Diagnostic Centre Akowonjo, St Christopher Catholic Church Ijaye, St Thomas Catholic Church Cement, St. Dominic Church Yaba, Foursquare Gospel Church Ijesha, Ejire Primary Health Centre Surulere and many others.
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