Golden Jaguars assist in raising breast cancer awareness

Members of the national Football team, the Golden Jaguars team joined forces with the Guyana Cancer Foundation in their annual tree wrapping exercise, becoming the first sporting team to come on board with the programme, which has been doing this event for 11 years.
As breast cancer awareness month commenced internationally on Saturday, the team members as well as other public spirited citizens and members of the foundation took to the Camp Street Avenue, Georgetown where every tree was wrapped in a vibrant pink cloth designed with the Breast Cancer insignia in an effort to raise awareness to the fight against the disease.
While this is the 11th year of the event, this is the first year that the Foundation is acting independently as a registered organization, previously operating as a committee under Avon.

Golden Jaguars player, Brandon Beresford shared his sentiments about this initiative.
“It is always good to raise awareness about things like this, the more people see this, the more they could donate, help out or even help raise awareness themselves, so it is always good to show our support.” Beresford related.
Warren Creavalle, another Jaguars player also gave his views on the awareness of the problems males face, pointing out that “I think as males, they are our counterparts and we owe it to them as equals to come out and show support in these issues that are vital to them and show that we care about them.”
President and Founder of the Foundation Bibi Hassan explained that this is the first time she has had a sport team join in and it is a pleasure to have them on board.
“This is awesome; I have never had a football team come on board to do the tree wrapping.” Hassan added, “I normally have Qualfon, but this year I didn’t see them turn out but I am really really overwhelmed with the support I got from the football team,” laugh quietly, “this is an all celebrity evening.”
Hassan indicated that there will be a church service at the Brickdam Cathedral on Oct 9, international day of wear pink for support on Oct 21 and the breast cancer walk from Parade Ground on October 22.
Guyana will take on Suriname this Saturday in Paramaribo in the first of two matches in Round 3 of the Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup 2016. The Jaguars next assignment will be at home at Leonora Stadium when they take on Regional powerhouse, the Reggae Boyz out of Jamaica on October 11 as they aim to qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.