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Journey of Hope Botswana, focuses on bringing Breast cancer awareness to women in Botswana and assists with treatment and care of Breast Cancer Patients. Website: (The Journey of Hope Botswana ) ==History of the organisation== In May 2008 a group of women, some of whom are themselves Breast Cancer survivors, were informed of a breast cancer patient who could not afford the necessary and urgent treatment. Immediately, these women were compelled to help and together they raised the necessary funds to help this woman fight Breast Cancer. Soon, other similar cases came to their attention and once again these women rallied together and enough money was raised to help with treatment. It became apparent that there was a that there was huge ignorance about the disease and the potential for its cure and that many women in Botswana were unable to finance and would not consider breast cancer treatment. In 2009 the voluntary work these women were undertaking in regards to Breast Cancer was formalised with the creation of an NGO "Journey of Hope Botswana". This Charity was registered as a non-profit organisation in Botswana - registration number CR 8865 with the primary objective of educating our people about breast cancer and its treatment and a secondary objective to provide financial assistance to breast cancer sufferers. During our well-attended breast cancer awareness events it was obvious that Journey of Hope was not only having a profound and life changing effect on women diagnosed with breast cancer, but also on those who attended these events as spectators and contributors. In our early days we were able to encourage two women identified by us as having breast anomalies to go for medical reviews – a process they would never have undertaken willingly. We supported these two women through their reviews and one was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, the other with Ovarian cancerand, thankfully due to early detection and timely treatment, they are still with us today. Our first tangible outcome! This cemented the notion within Journey of Hope that our singular most important function lay with helping to raise Awareness of a disease that can be so easily treated if detected early. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Journey of Hope Botswana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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