August is Women’s Month and Bakwena N1N4 has partnered with PinkDrive and the Department of Health to raise awareness around breast, testicular and prostate cancer in communities adjacent to the Platinum Highway in North West Province.
Aimed at educating people about the various types of cancers, early lump detection and clinical examinations, the first phase of the campaign saw nurses and caregivers receive training at Dinokana Clinic on 1 August and Tshewelelopele and Groot Marico Clinics on 10 August 2017.
A second phase of the campaign, which involves the education and screening of the community, took place on 14 and 15 August at Lehurutshe Clinic and 16 and 17 August at Dinokana Clinic. On 28 and 29 August, the campaign will move to the Groot Marico Clinic and on 30 and 31 August to Tshwelelopele Clinic in Zeerust.
The team will also talk to learners at the schools in the areas surrounding the various clinics. This year, the Pink Drive mammography truck was stationed at Dinokana on 17 August.
Bakwena’s corporate social investment focus areas include, but are not limited to, road safety, health, environment and heritage as well as social economic development. Notably, the organisation initiates extensive social development programmes amongst the communities along the routes it constructs, operates, maintains and builds.
As a socially responsible company, Bakwena understands the importance of engaging in partnerships that strengthen systems such as health and education.
PinkDrive is a Public Benefit Organisation powering South Africa’s first mobile mammography and educational unit and taking its message that ‘Early Detection Saves Lives’ to communities throughout South Arica. To date, PinkDrive has conducted 11 828 mammograms, 120 192 clinical breast examinations, and educated 306 749 women on breast cancer.
Bakwena is proud to support initiatives such as these as they equip women, children and men with the necessary information and support to manage their health more effectively.