South Africa’s leading Bookmakers Hollywood have added their weight behind Friday evening’s PinkDrive racemeeting at Greyville.
The eighth race on the night meeting programme is the R88 000 Hollywoodbets FM 72 Handicap to be run over 1000m and visitors to the city track will be entertained to drum majorettes, pipers and singers.
PinkDrive, a health sector NGO, was founded in 2009 by Noelene Kotschan, on the premise that early detection will help prolong a life.
PinkDrive’s cardinal purpose is to contribute towards preventing as many people as it can, from succumbing to breast, cervical, prostate and testicular cancer. The primary focus is on citizens without access to reasonable care for these conditions, and who reside in areas where health services are inaccessible.
It recognises that treatable cancers receiving even the basic levels of care, could translate into varying lengths of extended life for the afflicted, when detected and treated early. It’s posture is ostensibly a promoter of health awareness in general, and specifically health education and heightening awareness of gender-related cancers in South Africa.
PinkDrive has five principal interventions through its flagship programmes, PinkDrive and More Balls Than Most, channelled through mobile point-of-contact service delivery by skilled certificated medical/nursing practitioners.
These include Clinical Breast Exams, Mammograms, Pap Smears, Cervical Cancer Screening, Prostate Specific Antigen Test and Prostate and Testicular Cancer Awareness and Education.
Indigent and medically uninsured woman and men are the primary beneficiaries of PinkDrive’s commitment. Citizens living in rural, township and semi-urban geographies across South Africa, are of highest priority. Beneficiaries who can afford payment for the service, are charged an approved nominal amount, which in turn funds the services to the indigent and medically uninsured beneficiaries.
You can help – please SMS ‘PinkDrive’ to 40158 to donate R20 or visit their website on www.pinkdrive.co.za
