I know it doesn’t rhyme, but consider thinking Peach for breast cancer awareness and prevention this October, not Pink.
The person who created the idea to distribute peach ribbons for Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention was Charlotte Haley in 1991. She was unhappy that only about 5% of the money being raised for breast cancer prevention by The National Cancer Institute (NCI) was actually going to research. The rest was going … elsewhere. What she did was pin peach ribbons to cards that said (in part):
“Help us wake up our legislators and America by wearing this ribbon.”
Read more here: Charlotte Haley
Why not do this: Find out exactly where the money you are donating to any breast cancer entity is actually going. Do that.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled.” ~Mark Twain
Are we brave enough to allow that we may have been fooled?
Watch The Truth About Cancer: A Global Quest, Episode 2 here for free…and then let me know what you think in the comments.
Karen Creamer
