8.9 C
New York
Friday, March 29, 2024

Buy now

Friday, March 29, 2024

No Shave November: The cancer awareness campaign

In order to spark conversation and spread awareness about cancer, participants in a month-long trip in November refrain from shaving and grooming. This awareness campaign has been named as “No-Shave November”.

By Rahul Thapa

As the month of November kicks off, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are flooded with hundreds of posts about #NoShaveNovember. But how many of us know the story backing it up? It is often misunderstood as a meme material.

In order to spark conversation and spread awareness about cancer, participants in a month-long trip in November refrain from shaving and grooming. This awareness campaign has been named as “No-Shave November”.

No-Shave November is committed to generating money for cancer prevention, research, and education. This is done by embracing our hair, which many cancer patients lose, and letting it grow wild and free, No-Shave November aims to raise awareness. Donate the money to be spent on shaving and grooming to help those battling cancer and save lives.

In 2009, two years after Matthew Hill, who battled colorectal cancer during the month of November in 2007, passed away, the concept of “No-Shave November” was born. He and his family had previously made it a tradition not to shave in November and to donate the money they would have spent on shaving cream and razors to organisations that fund research into diseases including prostate, testicular, and colorectal cancer, among others.

The phrase “Movember,” which refers to how a group of friends will be growing out their moustaches and raising money for men’s health charities throughout that month, was created in 2003 in Australia with the idea of using facial hair to raise awareness. There are two, the Movember Foundation and No-Shave November.

No-Shave November and the Movember Foundation are independent organisations, but they both advocate for the same cause: refrain from shaving (or grow a moustache) throughout the month of November to raise awareness and donate to these kinds of causes.

Millions of dollars have been raised by the two charities throughout the course of their 15-year existence in support of organisations that work to prevent colorectal, prostate, and testicular cancer.

Related Articles

Stay Connected

146,751FansLike
12,800FollowersFollow
268FollowersFollow
80,400SubscribersSubscribe

Latest Articles