Health Issues committee began soon after the year
started, we usually have one meeting per week to plan fundraising ideas and awareness
days. We decided our first health issue to raise awareness and money for was breast cancer. This topic is particularly close to the health committee as our teach supervisor Ms David is a breast cancer survivor.
We started off by researching key statistics, information about the disease, who it tends to affect, treatment and survival rates. I think is is fair to say the group was shocked by the statistics. We really threw ourselfs into the campaign, so far we have successfully publicized and put on two awareness days where
we encouraged students to wear pink to show support for the cause.
Another method we have employed in our effort to raise awareness was by giving informative presentations on the issue. We have had representatives from the heath committee visit every tutorial session in the school to raise the diseases profile. I
presented to the 6th grade during their tutorial session which was a
interesting task and I had to keep in mind their age and how information might
effect them. I had to consider what information would be ethically right to give them and what I should censor.
Our third awareness technique was to put on two bakesales to raise funds for the cause. I volentteered to plan the bakesales which was quite a large task to coordinate but ended up very sucessful in total raising 680chf.
Below is a couple of slides from the presentation we used for the 6th grade.
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