Friends:http://picasaweb.google.com/says.manoj/ICCNHandique# October is the International Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM). It is an annual international health campaign event organized by major breast Cancer organizations to increase awareness of the disease and to enlighten the public of its cause, prevention and cure. Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS) in collaboration with ICCN (Indian Cancer Care Network) and a local NGO RODALI are taking up some plans to bring this awareness in North East India where this awareness need to be brought throughout the year.
On 11th October the collaboration organized a Breast Cancer Awareness Camp in Handique Girl's College Gauhati. It was well attended by the students of the college. Mrs Gayatri Devi from Handique Girls college gave the welcome address and Mrs Alaka Chakravarty, Vice -Principal Handique Girl'e College presided the meeting . Dr Jayantimala Chakravarty from RODALI, gave a valuable presentation with demonstration. (see link above). The camp was also attended by Dr Jayanta B Sarmah from UK who a speech about ICCN and its work. Dr Sarmah stressed the importance of the awareness and suggested that college student should volunteer their time for cancer patients. The best way to fight breast cancer is to have a plan that helps you detect the disease in its early stages. He requested the ladies to start Early Detection Plan at the earliest. We are also planning to organize such awareness camps in other parts of the North East. Possible sites are: Jorhat (Lakhimi Sangha & DCB Girls College); Dibrugarh (Kanoi Girls College), Shillong (Lady Kean College), Duliajan (Zaloni Club) and others. One may request such awareness camps by writing to friendsofas...@gmail.com. We also have a short Power Point Presentation available which can be emailed to any interested party to organize such awareness camps on their own. One may also contact RODALI in Guwahati (Dr. Jayantimala Chakravarty (Tel:9859980138) , <jayanti_m...@rediffmail.com>). For more information on ICCN, please contact supp...@cancercare.net.in <http://mc/compose?to=supp...@cancercare.net.in Rajen Barua Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (Houston) Houston, texasfriendsofas...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
