Volunteer for Limpopo Province, South Africa 2015 Breast Cancer Awareness program.

Volunteer for Limpopo Province, South Africa 2015 Breast Cancer Awareness program. 

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Watch as the warm people of rural Busia County teach the Volunteers how to do the Community 

Welcome Dance. http://youtu.be/-3HzaSlnJQE?a

How to check your Breasts for Lumps - Breast Cancer Awareness.

How to check your Breasts for Lumps - Breast Cancer Awareness.

There’s no right or wrong way to check your breasts.

It’s important to know how your breasts normally look and feel. That way, you can spot any changes quickly and report them to your GP. A lump could be an early sign of breast cancer.

Be breast aware Every woman's breasts are different. Many women have one breast bigger than the other.

Get used to how your breasts feel at different times of the month. This can change during your menstrual cycle. For example, some women have tender and lumpy breasts around the time of their period. After the menopause, normal breasts feel soft, less firm and not lumpy. Click here for more information.

The Welcome Dance - Breast Cancer Awareness

Watch Cancel Cancer Africa volunteer Jacqui Dorney talk about her Breast Cancer Awareness trip to rural Busia, Kenya.

Watch Cancel Cancer Africa volunteer Jacqui Dorney talk about her Breast Cancer Awareness trip to rural Busia, Kenya...http://youtu.be/droteoOJaDU

Thank you Yongxing Steel for your support

As we celebrate our Sixth year this month, we say a very big thank you to Yongxing Steel for partnering with CCA to help make the 2013 Breast Cancer Awareness program a succes across four rural communities. During the four days program we were able to examine over 1200 women working along side four Nurses, two doctors and eighteen volunteers.

We appreciate your support, Yongxing Steel. We look forward to many more years saving lives together in rural Africa.

All people, whether male or female, are born with some Breast cells and tissue.

All people, whether male or female, are born with some Breast cells and tissue.

Cancer is a broad term for a class of disease characterized by abnormal cells that grow and invade healthy cells in the body.  Breast cancer starts in the cells of the Breast as a group of Cancer cells that can then invade surrounding tissues or spread (metastasize) to other areas of the body.

All people, whether male or female, are born with some Breast cells and tissue. Even though males do not develop milk-producing breasts, a man’s breast cells and tissue can still develop Cancer. Even so, male breast Cancer is very rare.

Read more of this by clicking HERE http://cancelcancerafrica.org/1/post/2014/11/all-people-whether-male-or-female-are-born-with-some-breast-cells-and-tissue.html

Buying a New Bra is not my priority, as long as I can feed my children, who needs a bra?

Buying a New Bra is not my priority, as long as I can feed my children, who needs a bra?

Buying a bra in many rural communities in Africa is not as easy as we think. It’s amazing the little things we take for granted. Imagine having to go through four to five years with just one bra.

Madame Eniye who sells able roasted peanuts in a local market in Benin, said “buying a bra is not my priority, as long as I can feed my children, who needs a bra? I will just cover up my breast with a wrapper (Smiling). My husband is not working” (Translated). 

This is a very common response among women in rural Africa. The disturbing issue is that, those who are able to buy a bra, continue using it when they put on weight or loose weight, which now leads to high “Breast Pain” complaints in Africa.

If you ask ten (10) women of their bra sizes, just one may be to tell you. The bra’s band digs into their flesh (around the torso). “A bra is supposed to fit tightly, but the band should not dig into the flesh,” we try to teach. We educate the women to try to change into a larger band size, taking into reflection the extra cost to them and their key priorities. It will be a huge success when we are able to get 10% of all the women we breast examine in 2015 to buy one extra bra each year. I pray that soon we shall be able to share free bras to women in rural African communities.

So many of the women have their shoulder straps cutting into their shoulders, due to a small cup size, but sometimes also due to small band size. It is very common for a breast-feeding mothers to keep on wearing the same bra she had while she was pregnant, as this is the only bra she has and can afford. Just think if we had the opportunity of giving one used or new bra to every woman we breast-examine in 2015.

December 9th Cancel Cancer Africa will be kicking off the ‘Bra-4-Africa’ global campaign, our goal is to encourage people to support with Used or New Bras. We aim to carry out over four thousand breast examinations in 2015 across rural communities in Limpopo, South Africa, Busia County, Kenya and Edo State, Nigeria.

For more information please visit our website on www.cancelcancerafrica.org or kindly send us a mail to info@cancelcancerafrica.org