October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I am sure everyone has noticed all the pink everywhere. The stores around her go crazy with it, selling everything from clothes to kitchen gadgets; all pink. Brandi has been in heaven, because pink is her favorite color.
I am also sure that all of us have a personal connection to breast cancer. For me, it was my Grandmother and my favorite Aunt. They both beat the disease and are living full, happy lives. I also had my own breast cancer scare a couple of years ago, and when I say scare, let me just say that I have never been so scared in my life. But, thanks to a free mammogram and lots of good doctors, I was told that it wasn't cancer. I did end up having a breast reduction at that time, which was a huge blessing.
Did you know that 290,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year? That is a staggering number. I am sure a percentage of those women are like me, without health insurance, so short on options. Free mammograms can help so many women who wouldn't otherwise have access to this test. Dannon is going to help some of these women, and we can help Dannon do just that.
I am sure by now we have all seen the pink topped yogurts. Under those pink lids is a code. Simply go to
Cups Of Hope and enter the code to help Dannon reach their pledge of donating $500,000 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. ®. All the money donated will go towards providing free mammograms and supporting breast cancer research. They are hoping to raise and donate even more money ($1.5 million) this year than they have pledged.
You can enter the codes until the end of November, so don't think that just because October is coming to a close that we should no longer think about breast cancer. I think about it all the time, and worry about my daughters. Don't you?
"I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Dannon. In addition, I received a gift certificate and products to thank me for taking the time to participate."
3 comments:
I love the whole entering codes online thing. There's another yogurt brand that expects people to save the lids from the yogurt cups and send them in. In the mail.
Anna ~ I know, it's so much easier this way!
The one thing that's better about mailing them in is that my school was able to collect thousands of lids to send in as a unit. The school typing in all those codes would have taken too much time, and most people don't take the time to type in their own codes anyway.
I'm glad you guys are some who do type them in!
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