Pink October – Bangladesh (BMSS)

Name of the activity: Pink October

Country/NMO: Bangladesh (BMSS)

Program: Healthy Lifestyles & Non-Communicable Diseases

Type of the activity: Capacity Building (Training or Workshop)

General description:

In our activity we arranged a series of events like training phase and execution phase . In training phase oncologist trained our volunteers about breast self examination and then our volunteers went to garments workers and taught the scientific way of breast self examination.We created awareness among people of all classes by distributing pink ribbon, badge and through radio show.

Focus area:

Cancer

Problem statement:

Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers. So breast self examination has become a very important tool early diagnose this cancer.

Target groups and beneficiaries:

Garments workers were our target groups most of them were female. Beneficiaries will be people from all classes of society.

Objectives and indicators of success:

Objectives-
-create awareness
-train about breast self examination
-emphasis on early diagnosis
-give an idea about the treatment plan

Methodology:

training phase and execution phase. in the execution phase we will evaluate how much thay have learnt.

Plans for evaluation:

Pre training form and then post training execution phase