Your Wellness Matters
Issue 14 - November 2020
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HELP CHANGE THE FACE OF MEN’S HEALTH THIS MOVEMBER sion. Grow a Mo, Host and attend an event, or MOVE to fundraise at www.za.movember.com 2. Start a Team, get the people in your workplace to join you. Have fun. 3. Set a fundraising target. Create a JustGiving page so your supporters can find you. 4. MOVE for men’s health this Movember by running or walking 60km over the month. That is 60 kilometres for the 60 men we lose to suicide each hour, every hour across the world. Beat your personal best and get your friends to sponsor you. 5. Mo Sisters, adopt a Mo Bro or commit to MOVE for the month alongside your hairier halves. Have fun and get creative in the workplace.
Select your choice from the moustache guide. 3. Style it. Trim it. Keep it neat. 4. Dedicate your Mo to someone who has been impacted by cancer. 5. Auction off your moustache to the highest donor.
Take your moustache to the next level:
Rule 1: Sign up to www.movember.com and commit to Grow, Move or Host, or simply make a donation in support of someone. It’s always better to Mo in a group than to Mo alone, so rally your mates or colleagues – Movember is a fun virtual campaign.
1. Been growing a beard? Summer’s the second biggest reason to sacrifice your beard for men’s health issues. 2. Sport a classic moustache. From the one grown by dad, for the one’s grown for Dads.
The Rules No matter how you’re doing Movember, get yourself going on the right foot: GROWING A MO? Get it Right - No matter the shape or style of your Mo this Movember, your Mo inspires conversations, donations, and real change. There are only a few rules in Movember, but they’re vital.
Rule 2: Once signed up, commit to your MOVE plans or Start clean-shaven on Movember 1st. Set your sights on a Mo style. Are you confident you can outdo Hulk Hogan himself? Or shooting for a modest Wisp? Your moustache is your hairy billboard for the month of Movember, so get a little creative. Sacrifice a beard, dye your Mo, auction it off to the highest donor: the more eyes on your Mo, the better. Rule 3: Grow and Groom or MOVE through the month, updating your social media posts on your Mogress during the month, while driving donations. If you require fundraising ideas, mail info@mensfoundation.co.za for a fundraising toolkit. Rule 4: Have Fun while doing Good, while conducting yourself as a modern gentleman.
About Movember The Movember Foundation is the leading global men’s health charity, funding over 1,250 projects in 21 countries worldwide – focused on men’s health initiatives, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention.
tion is developing and implementing global programmes from Movember, as well as their own programmes, to fund men’s survivorship and research programmes that meet the global objectives of the Movember Foundation.
option of Low Dose Rate (LDR) brachytherapy to prostate cancer patients. Social media channels: #tag: #MovemberRSA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MovemberSouthAfrica Twitter: @MovemberRSA
Movember is ranked 45th out of the top 500 NGOs (non-governmental organisations) around the world and is the largest non-governmental funder of men’s health programmes globally. Movember delivers innovative, breakthrough research and support programmes that enable men to live happier, healthier and longer lives. In South Africa, Movember is grown and groomed by The Men's Foundation of South Africa under license from the International Movember Foundation. The Men’s Founda-
Funds raised by the Men’s Foundation support awareness, education and survivorship and research programmes developed in South Africa through local Movember efforts. Survivorship programmes invested into include a Patient Navigation Programme, Cancer Cohort Programme, an on-line patient support centre, the extension of its global prostate registry IronMan to South Africa and more recently Project Peacock. Project Peacock provides the
Media contacts: Crystal van der Merwe 084 685 2450 cystal@movembersa.com Garron Gsell 082 580 4581 E-mail: garron@movember.com On behalf of: The Men’s Foundation of South Africa NPO/NPC, official licensees of Movember in South Africa
