Roosevelt Island Youth Program Breast Cancer Awareness Initiative Starts With Education And Fundraising At Octagon Field Saturday Soccer League Games Tomorrow
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Received the following message from the Roosevelt Island Youth Program yesterday:
Charles DeFino, Executive Director of the Roosevelt Island Youth Program announced today the beginning of the Youth Programs community initiative to inform youth and their parents about Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM).
BCAM, also referred to in America as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM), is an annual international health campaign, organized by major breast cancer charities and local community groups every October to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure.
The campaign also offers information and support to those affected by breast cancer. This Saturday October 20th, the Roosevelt Island Youth Program Soccer League will give out RIYP Cares/Cure Cancer bracelets for all the players to wear during their games and their coaches will explain the significance of having the players and families wearing them.
This event has been organized by the Beacon Youth Advisory group with our Coaches Across America, Nike/ UP2US Americorps worker Andre Ganeev and Lucy Leon and Sandra Mollette of the Roosevelt Island Youth Program Beacon.
The Beacon is made possible by the grants of the Department of Youth and Community Development and the additional support of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, Americorps, Nike Corporation and donations from Zog Sports and of course our Councilperson Jessica Lappin.
The Roosevelt Island Youth Program will also be selling charm bracelets to raise money for the American Cancer Society, bracelet will be available at the Youth Center at 506 Main Street, all Soccer games at Octagon field and by calling the Roosevelt Island Youth Center at 212-935-3645, the bracelets are $5.00 apiece, so please help us help.
7 comments :
Wow. Charlie is finally doing something innovative with the Youth Program. I think it's a good thing to make the kids aware of Breast Cancer. Good job.
Charlie is always doing innovative things at the youth center, check out the backyard, robotics, beacon etc; folks appreciate it' all coming to an end
Always?? The Beacon is horrible. Its a babysitting circus. There are no sports programs there.
common sense AKA Charlie Defino
I have to agree with that. My kids tried Beacon and didn't stay long.
Please don't use another person's real name in your pseudonym to personally attack anyone. (For example a pseudonym of "John Doe" is a Joke). If you have a criticism, do it in a civil manner.
Also, please don't speculate on the real identity of another person unless you are willing to reveal your real identity as well.
I deleted the two comments above not because one of them was critical of the Beacon Program but because of reasons described above.
I'm working on getting a module started on robotics/science at the Beacon soon. Maybe you kids will give it a try?
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