"Movember (a portmanteau word from moustache and "November") is an annual, month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues, such as prostate cancer and other male cancers; and associated charities. The Movember Foundation runs the Movember charity event, housed at Movember.com. The goal of Movember is to 'change the face of men's health.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movember
I found out about this through my brother in law. He heard that we need to do CAS for school, and as he is one of the people helping organise Movember Estonia, then he said that he would see if there is anything that we could help with.
So, I spent two hours in Solaris handing out flyers to people. The flyers had some facts about prostate cancer in general, statistics and how to get tested. I thought that they looked really cool. Our target group was men and women over the age of 30. It was quite hard to guess the age of people, so we just ended up giving them out to everyone. We were also supposed to stop the people and talk to them, rather than just give them the flyer as they passed us. This was really hard to do, for two reasons. Firstly, because everyone seemed to be in a hurry and they didn't really want to stop to chat. Secondly, because I didn't know exactly what to say to them to catch their attention.
There was one old man that left me speechless when I gave him a flyer. I gave it to him and he asked me what it was about, so I told him that we are fighting cancer. Then he sighed and told me that he has had 8 cancer operations. I just didn't know what to say..
We were given a t-shirt to wear, which we got to keep! I also took home one of the flyers as a memory.
Oh! We were also supposed to direct people to the photo booth, where they could take pictures with moustaches. There was this group of boys (about my age) who I was trying to convince to take a picture, and then I said that I could take the picture with them, and that convinced them. The pictures are supposed to be posted onto the Movember Facebook page, so I can't wait to see how it came out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movember
I found out about this through my brother in law. He heard that we need to do CAS for school, and as he is one of the people helping organise Movember Estonia, then he said that he would see if there is anything that we could help with.
So, I spent two hours in Solaris handing out flyers to people. The flyers had some facts about prostate cancer in general, statistics and how to get tested. I thought that they looked really cool. Our target group was men and women over the age of 30. It was quite hard to guess the age of people, so we just ended up giving them out to everyone. We were also supposed to stop the people and talk to them, rather than just give them the flyer as they passed us. This was really hard to do, for two reasons. Firstly, because everyone seemed to be in a hurry and they didn't really want to stop to chat. Secondly, because I didn't know exactly what to say to them to catch their attention.
There was one old man that left me speechless when I gave him a flyer. I gave it to him and he asked me what it was about, so I told him that we are fighting cancer. Then he sighed and told me that he has had 8 cancer operations. I just didn't know what to say..
We were given a t-shirt to wear, which we got to keep! I also took home one of the flyers as a memory.
Oh! We were also supposed to direct people to the photo booth, where they could take pictures with moustaches. There was this group of boys (about my age) who I was trying to convince to take a picture, and then I said that I could take the picture with them, and that convinced them. The pictures are supposed to be posted onto the Movember Facebook page, so I can't wait to see how it came out!
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