Race for the Cure Grants Awards

The 1999 Susan G. Komen Foundation Bayou Region Affiliate recently awarded grant money totaling $35,500 to area projects. The money was raised through the Bayou Region Race for the Cure held last October. Grant award projects receiving the funds are:

• Mammobile - Road to Prevention: A project to provide mobile mammography and breast health/cancer education in rural areas of Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, St. James and Assumption Parishes.
• On Her Side: A project to provide purchasing assistance for permanent breast forms, brassieres and medication/utility assistance to breast cancer patients.
• Indigent Patient Care: A project to provide financial assistance to indigent breast cancer patients who meet qualifications.
• Senior Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon: An educational luncheon on breast cancer for the elderly population.
• Health Awareness Tea Program (HAT): A project to create a fun, inviting environment where African American females can learn about the benefits of early detection and survivors can receive support.
• The Breast Cancer Web Site: A project to maintain and further develop an interactive web site that allows breast cancer patients and their families to obtain information, submit topics of interest and to develop a database of breast cancer survivors.
• One Step, One Cure: A project to provide education to Native American women and other women for breast self-examination (BSE). Also providing educational material on breast cancer prevention and early detection.

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was established in 1982 by Nancy Brinker to honor the memory of her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died from breast cancer at the age of 36. The Foundation is a national organization with a network of volunteers working through local chapters and Race for the Cure events across the country, fighting to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease by advancing research, education, screening and treatment. The Foundation is the largest private funder of research dedicated solely to breast cancer in the United States.

For more information contact Roxanne Hale, Chairperson, Bayou Region Race for the Cure, 493-4700.

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