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SEPTEMBER GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH (OVARIAN CANCER, CERVICAL, VAGINAL, VULVAL, UTERINE)

  • Heartbroken, we have raised just 11.4K of our 70K target. Please help us push this forward.

      26 September 2022
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    Next month is breast cancer month, millions will be donated in 4 weeks. We are 3 weeks into gynaecological cancer month and we are sitting at $11K.

    It's really hard to not cry, we are trying so hard yet it still feels like a deafening silence.

    We find this month really difficult, it's the month we have to push the hardest but also the most triggering, as survivors it brings a lot of really scary memories back. The lack of support, the lack of funding, the appalling survival statistics, and archaic treatment options compared to other well funded cancers.

    We get inundated with messages from others diagnosed, from those who have lost someone they loved dearly, it's so sad; yet here we are in 2022 with minimal raised, New Zealand is lagging so far behind the rest of the world.

    If we dont change things it will be our granddaughters in the same position, fighting to even be seen.

    I founded Talk Peach Gynaecological Foundation post my battle with ovarian cancer, I am so lucky to still be here. (Tash Crosby, Founder)

    Today we lose someone else to a gynaecological cancer.

    Please support and share this across your networks and socials, one share can make all the difference.

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  • $5.5K of 70K total.

      10 September 2022

    We are just over a week in, and we are at $5.5K of our $70K goal.

    Are we nervous...Yes. Will we give up, NO.

    We hope this will be the year New Zealanders pull through and back Gynaecological Cancers.

    Fighting and holding out hope is the nature of our community; many of us fight for a diagnosis, we fight to survive, and all of us, even whilst battling, fight for change; we don't have the hoards of people out there backing us. It breaks our hearts to see this group of cancers still in the shadows.

    We fight so that those who will sadly join us have better outcomes, better support, and the knowledge that their communities see them. We fight so that the public knows the signs and symptoms and are better placed to advocate for their health; early detection is imperative to survival.

    As a survivor, knowing that the community is out there also supporting means more than you could know. We are so grateful for your backing, it has brought us to tears this month, and we are forever thankful.

    It takes communities to drive change; we can't do it alone. Thank you for getting on the waka with us.

    Together we fight for a better future for those who follow in our footsteps.

    This is for you, for our mothers, aunts, friends, daughters, sisters, nans, wives, colleagues, all those diagnosed, and the loved ones we have lost.

    When both Tash (Founder) and Roanne (Board Chair) were diagnosed, there was nothing; the sense of isolation is something we work to ensure isn't put upon those behind us.

    From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for your support, and we ask you to please encourage those you know to support this cause too.

    Ma whero ma pango ka oti ai te mahi

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