The Avon Foundation sponsored its third American Cancer Society University (ACSU), held in New York City on October 1-5, 2007. Avon Associates from 10 countries each selected a representative from a cancer nongovernmental organization (NGO) and a breast cancer survivor to attend the training as part of their team. The weeklong training focused on event management and fundraising, mobilizing survivors as volunteers, and working with the media. All 27 scholars in attendance also received media video training facilitated by international staff member Gita Pullapilly and Eastern Division volunteer Garrison Jackson. Additional faculty members were from the Avon Foundation and the Society, including Eastern Division volunteer Babette Goodman Cohen, whose moving cancer story inspired many survivors to stand up and tell their own stories, several of them for the first time. NGO’s will receive a seed grant to work with their team and to conduct a fundraising program in their country over the next year, with proceeds used to fund breast cancer programs. Participating countries included Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, and the Ukraine.
You're right. It also depends on what contury you live in. Some European countries have banned products with harmful chemicals in them. The US will take centuries to even want to make a change meanwhile, these big companies will be making money off of us. If our everyday products are slowly killing us, the pharmaceutical companies will make even more money off of us it's a sick cycle.
Posted by: Gerald | 06 August 2012 at 11:07 AM