Pikelets raise prostate cancer awareness
The Rural Women charity is focusing on men’s issues at this year’s Fieldays, and they’re doing it with pikelets.
There are many ways to make people more aware of an issue, but pikelets for prostate is one of the more inventive ideas.
The Rural Women charity has helped support women since 1925, but this year they have focused on a men’s issue.
Shirley Read, national councillor for the charitable trust, said they wanted to do something different for Fieldays and to get people talking about the issues.
“Men get cancer as often as women get breast cancer,” she said.
Read said she had responses from people who had been through prostate cancer treatment and appreciated an idea to raise awareness.
In the past they have raised money for breast cancer by making plaster casts of women’s breasts and decorating the plaster mould.
Although they raise money for it, Read said they want to get more people talking. “Everything is not about fundraising,” she said.
The trust is has also supported the Christchurch earthquake relief fund.
Next year, they plan to help the Christchurch residents with counselling. Read said that there are still people dealing with grief. “It’s not finished,” she said.
Read believes the counselling initiative will help after she saw a story about a mother’s account of her son who committed suicide.
“I was quite moved by it.”
