PlayForPink
- By: Karen Nortier Pam Golding Properties
- Short URL: https://archive.backabuddy.co.za/playforpink
- Date Created: 9 April 2020
Personal message
Pam Golding Properties Brackenfell has started a PlayForPink Campaign to raise Breast Cancer Awareness through sport. Our aim is to get our community, schools and sports teams involved to create awareness and raise funds for The Pink Drive.
If you donate R50 or more you will automatically be entered into a raffle. Prizes include a night at the Mirage Hotel, 2 nights at Caledon Hotel, Spa and Casino and various other prizes. The draw will be on the 31st of October at our main fund raising event, and winners will be notified by no later than the 3rd of November. All funds raised will be donated to the PinkDrive.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. While most people are aware of breast cancer, many forget to take the steps to have a plan to detect the disease in its early stages and encourage others to do the same. We have made a lot of progress but still have a long way to go and need your help!
Donations
- Oct 13, 2015 - R 1 000.00 Fees covered
- "THIS IS A GREAT CAUSE!!!" - ROOPA POTGIETER CAPE TOWN INC
- Oct 08, 2015 - R 100.00 Fees covered
- "GREAT CAUSE" - SANDY CHAPMAN
- Oct 06, 2015 - R 100.00
- "Great cause to support" - Johan Steenkamp
- Oct 05, 2015 - R 1 000.00
- "We challenge all business owners in the Brackenfell area to also donate to this PinkDrive campaign." - Pam Golding Brackenfell
- Oct 03, 2015 - R 100.00 Fees covered
- "Great cause" - Mike de Beer
Statistics
Fundraising target
R 15 000.00Donations to date
R 8 600.00Funds raised offline
R 6 320.00PinkDrive Breast Cancer Fundraising
PinkDrive NPC, a health sector NGO, was founded in 2009 by Ms Noelene Kotschan, on the premise that “Early detection saves lives.” PinkDrive’s cardinal purpose is to contribute meaningfully towards preventing as many people as it can, from succumbing to breast, cervical, prostate and testicular cancer.
Its primary focus is on citizens without access to reasonable care for these conditions, and who reside in areas where health services do not reach. It recognises that treatable cancers receiving even the basic levels of care could translate into varying lengths of extended life for the afflicted when detected and treated early. Its posture is ostensibly a promoter of health awareness in general, and specifically health education and heightening awareness of gender-related cancers in South Africa.
Our Mission:
Promote awareness and early detection of, and screening for gender-related cancers in the general population of South Africa, using the message “Early detection will help to prolong life.”
Our Vision:
To be the leading non-governmental organisation dedicated to creating and promoting awareness about cancer in South Africa, and potentially beyond.
Our delivery:
PinkDrive has five principal interventions through its flagship programmes, PinkDrive® and More Balls Than Most®, channelled through mobile point-of-contact service delivery by skilled certificated medical/nursing practitioners, namely:
- Clinical Breast Exams: A mass screening service provided to woman and men of all ages. This service includes one-on-one cancer education focusing on self-examinations as well as a breast examination. 2. Mammograms: A select screening service primarily provided for a woman over the age of 40, unless they are referred for a mammogram by a Doctor.
- Pap Smears: Cervical Cancer Screening.
- Prostate-Specific Antigen Test (PSA): These tests are a form of rapid testing for men above the age of 40 years old. These tests are administered by testing an adequate sample of blood taken from a subject. 5. Prostate and Testicular Cancer Awareness and Education: At all activations, More Balls Than Most sets up information booths and supplies information flyers to educate the public about Prostate and Testicular Cancer.
Our beneficiaries:
Indigent and medically uninsured woman and men are the primary beneficiaries of PinkDrive NPC’s commitment. Citizens living in rural, township and semi-urban geographies across South Africa, are of the highest priority. Beneficiaries who can afford to pay for the service, are charged an approved nominal amount, which in turn funds the services to the indigent and medically uninsured beneficiaries.