IT all started when Mae’s Schools in Subryanville, Georgetown, helped the Guyana Cancer Foundation (GCF) to sell its pins and ribbons during Cancer awareness month. Gradually, the school began adding more and more activities to mark the occasion.

The Breast Cancer walk by students has now turned into an annual event, and this year’s walk was held last Friday (October 21) in the school’s environs.
The school would ask children and staff to wear pink on the designated day and apart from conducting the walk, there would be cake for distribution, a photo booth, appropriate decorations, and a talk with children by their class teachers.

“We at Mae’s believe in supporting others…we saw it fit to make it into an annual event in support of our men and women; I was reliably informed that men too suffer from breast cancer, so we would really like for this to get bigger and better as the years go by,” Acting Administrator of Mae’s Schools, Lucinda Mc Curdy shared.

Commenting on the intended impact the walk would have, she said: “We are going in solidarity and support. They might be small but they are aware that this deadly disease is out there and we are in support of the victims and the survivors.”

Grade One Level Supervisor, Terrencia Tucker shared that just recently, some of the children in her class related to her that they have relatives who are affected by cancer. “So I am happy that they are being made more aware of it and how to deal with it,” she expressed.

Started just about three years ago, Tucker said each year, the school has taken things up a notch. The funds raised, she noted, would be donated to the GCF, led by advocate Bibi Saeedah Akhtar Hassan.