Movember’s men’s health campaign is seeing strong support from a group at the Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury.
This is the third year Chad Laughy and Brad Steeves have campaigned at the centre to grow moustaches and raise funds and awareness for men’s health below the waste. Funds raised go to research and awareness of prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and now in it’s third year as part of the campaign, mental health.
Called Mo Bros — and for women taking part, Mo Sistas — the team has secured 86 employees at the Centennial Centre with 39 of them being women who want to help out. Laughy says their goal is to beat their record of $15,079 from last year.
Steeves and Laughy have worked together to form the team at the centre with Laughy saying they are pleased to have support from the Mo Sistas. “So we have an extra arm of fundraising,” he said.
Steeves’ father and three uncles were diagnosed with prostate cancer so this fundraiser has a special place in his heart. He wants to raise as much money as possible.
He says raising awareness of the issue is important, as early diagnosis of prostate cancer is relatively easy to treat.
Being at the Centennial Centre, both Steeves and Laughy feel the mental health aspect of the Movember campaign is equally as important.
They are also taking part in a friendly Alberta Health Services competition with the Movember campaign in an attempt to raise as much money as possible. To donate, users can submit funds to their team page on the Movember website: http://moteam.co/ccmhbi.