Today was the Breast Cancer Walk and we were both volunteers assigned to the "Sponsors' Group". Our job was to set up their posters/"flags" and ensure that they had all they needed to set up their tables.

Getting organized at the beginning of the day.

Setting up BP's flag.


The t-shirts arrive!



The free mammogram van.

The A Team

The "American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee"(!) flag is installed.

Gill talks to some of the sponsors.

Registration

Setting up the stage

Sandra, the First Lady, arrives. The American ambassador also came, but I didn't get any pictures of him! The ambassador's wife does a lot of work for women's health and spoke at the benefit ballet last Friday

The Gori Women's Chamber Choir. They were good!

Lobio for the volunteers at the end of the day

Breast cancer is a serious problem in Georgia. It is a taboo subject and simply "not talked about". If a woman is diagnosed with it, it is usually in the late stages and so treatment is less successful than if it had been diagnosed earlier. Besides encouraging frequent mammograms and self-examination, an important objective is to make the subject one that can be discussed freely so that women can get support from their families and friends.