With 505,760 Mo Brothers and Sisters registered to raise funds for Movember in 2015, the total raised internationally so far is C$53,795,528 and counting. This money will be used to fund breakthrough solutions that produce tangible improvements in the lives of those dealing with prostate cancer, testicular cancer, poor mental health and physical inactivity. We want to give more life to our fathers and sons.
Why do we need to do this?
As stated on the
Movember Foundation web site, the state of men’s health is in a crisis. Simply put, men are dying too young.
Gender is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of health and life expectancy. For men, this is not good news. On average, across the world, men die 6 years earlier than women.
Moreover, poor mental health affects men more than women: three quarters of suicides are by men. The World Health Organization estimates that 510,000 men die from suicide globally each year. That’s one every minute.
The impact of prostate and testicular cancer on lives is substantial, with prostate cancer being the second most common cancer in men worldwide and the number of cases expected to almost double to 1.7 million cases by 2030.
Yet this gender-based inequality in health has received little national, regional or global acknowledgement or attention from health policy-makers or healthcare providers. This is exactly why the Movember Foundation focuses on men’s health. This is why Mo Bros and Mo Sistas from across the globe become a united voice every Movember, bringing vital funding and attention to the hidden men’s health crisis.
This is not just an issue for men. In order to tackle the problem and work towards a world where future generations of men are not faced with the same issues as today, we need to take action at both an individual and community level. This means engaging men and women, businesses, sporting groups, community organizations, governments, health policy makers and healthcare providers in the efforts to reduce the current gender inequality in health outcomes.
(Credit
Movember Foundation web site:
https://ca.movember.com/programs/cause)
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| Jon Sam |
We are proud and happy that one of our Mo Stashed Hairiers, a 3-year veteran Mo Bro, is also a medical doctor and pediatrician, Dr. Jon Sam whose stated motivation is: "Bros and their dads. And one day their sons."
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| Matt Penfold |
And here is our indefatigable stalwart Matt Penfold on
day 30 struggling to see over his moustache.
We congratulate Matt on achieving
Platinum status, raising over $1,000.
