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YvetteEmilieDupont
lI say all the guys wear pink kippahs for a month...
Another idea: quotHow about ordering ten dozen pink suede kippot for the Jewish guys, maybe pink hats in Muslim style for Muslim guys, other styles of hats and pink or pink-edged scarves for other religious traditions and for both genders? Have each hat imprinted with something like this:
Using My Head To Fight Breast Cancer
For more information, call ###-###-####
Or log on to http://www.whatever-the-URL-is.org
You can get those for $24 per dozen, or $240 for the whole lot. That works out to two dollars per kippah. Then you take the kippot down to a synagogue, Jewish Community Center, Jewish high school, a hospital... anywhere there are Jews, really. Charge $5 per kippah, and the extra three dollars per kippah goes to breast cancer research. That's $360, right there. The phone number and URL can be adjusted depending on which breast cancer organization you want to support.
I also think one might be able to get one or more companies to custom-embroider scarves/hijabs with a little pink ribbon on one corner, so that women too could have something to wear to contribute to awareness. Plain scarves, patterned scarves, pink ones, other colors... whatever. Just put a little ribbon on it, either embroidered or a sewn-on patch or even a decal. Some of the scarves at http://www.tznius.com and http://www.modestworld.com and http://www.shukronline.com would be perfect for this. If the pink matches your outfit, that's pretty. If it doesn't match, though, maybe it'll make more people ask why you're wearing it, and you can tell them about your efforts for breast cancer.
If research isn't your thing, how about contributing the funds to let lower-income women get a mammogram, or provide hospice care or a cleaning person for a lower-income woman whose breast cancer is so painful that she can't even do her own shopping or laundry anymore? What about providing some meals for a family whose mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, or aunt has just died of breast cancer? There are LOTS of ways to throw money at the cancer problem, and every single way is a beautiful and valid one. Perhaps if we were to work together, we could even find a way to use our connections here on Gaia to raise awareness and money for this horrible thing.
(Oh, and lest anyone go through life without knowing this, men can get breast cancer, too.)
