Help Provide Breast and Prostrate Cancer Screenings for Rural Salvadorans
The time is NOW!
The time is NOW!
Give women HOPE!
Screening for for Breast and Prostrate Cancer
Summary
Through our partner, Gente Ayudando Gente MDs are able to provide breast and prostrate cancer screenings at ther headquaters in El Salvador and by providing mobile clinics so more people can receive screetings. Early detectioin is key and many lives will be safed through this effort.
Challenge
There is a high demand of wigs and even a high amount of hair donors for this wigs; but we are unable to keep up with the fixed costs and production times. There is only one person trained on the trait and the wig construction costs are high. Sandra, started assembling the wigs as a volunteer but now, it is the way she generates the monthly income for her family.
Solution
The project will allow us to train 1 or 2 more people on the trait and this way we will be able to keep up with the demand of wigs at national hospitals. Also, the donations will allow to diminish the economic challenges of keeping the program alive.
Long-Term Impact
The long term impact is generating at least 3 steady jobs, but even more than that is to donate 50 wigs that will replicate in benefiting in more than 150 women with breast cancer. Each wig can serve the needs of at least 3 patients with the proper maintenance and care
What will be the imact of a one time donation?
$100 - Fund one wig for women undergoing chemotherapy
Resources
- http://www.airlineamb.org
- Washington post article
- Breast Cancer Walk Gente Ayudando Gente
- Gente Ayudando Gente El Salvador
- Airline Ambassadors webstite on this project