WBHI Takes to the Streets to Promote Early Cancer Detection, Breast Health Awareness

Jan. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- The Women’s Breast Health Initiative (WBHI) will be taking its mission of promoting early detection and awareness to the streets again for the 2011 February Outreach Campaign Saturday mornings on February 5, February 12, and February 19. WBHI volunteers will knock on the doors of over 1,000 households in the City of Miami to save lives. At the end of the door-to-door outreach, WBHI will culminate the program on February 26 with a visit from a mobile mammography van providing free mammograms to pre-qualified women right in their own neighborhood.

This year, WBHI will be targeting the City of Miami’s District 4, in collaboration with Commissioner Francis Suarez. Commissioner Suarez has worked tirelessly to serve the district and believes strongly in our mission to provide women with the appropriate awareness, education and screening, regardless of their financial means.

“We believe that the work Andrea and the WBHI are doing is extremely positive for District 4,” says Commissioner Suarez. “We are happy to support the organization, and know that their work will have a positive impact on the citizens in our neighborhoods.”

Andrea Ivory, internationally recognized 2009 Top Ten CNN Hero, breast cancer survivor, and founder of WBHI knows that early detection saves lives, because it saved hers. She founded WBHI, the premiere source of free door to door breast health awareness, education and screening to the uninsured and underserved in South Florida. “Breast cancer kills our grandmothers, mothers, sisters, daughters, family and friends. ALL women are at risk for breast cancer. Although early detection saves lives, not all women have access and awareness;” states Andrea, “That’s what we’re out there to do.”

WBHI believes that all women have the right to benefit from the early detection of breast cancer regardless of their ability to pay, and fights breast cancer as a life threatening disease, one household at a time. Since 2006 WBHI has knocked on more than 30,000 doors to save lives in South Florida.

Jackson Health System supports the efforts of WBHI by collaborating to provide our participants with free screening.

Who: The Women’s Breast Health Initiative
What: Door to door campaign offering free breast health awareness, education and
   mammograms to the uninsured and underserved.
Where: City of Miami, Florida 33125   
When: February 5, 12, 19 - Starting - 8:30AM
Contact: Andrea Ivory, Founder, Women’s Breast Health Initiative 866–315–7711

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