Its breast cancer awareness month, and to commemorate it, for 4 years the Special Envoy for Women and Children Kim Simplis Barrow along with her team have been releasing Cancer awareness posters. The women featured in the posters including Barrow are battling cancer. Now these posters aren't just pictures - they represent each survivor's journey, but more importantly the posters celebrate hope and strength in the face of cancer. The Special envoy's office usually just emails the posters but this year they invited the media to an official unveiling. It was held this morning at the Belize Cancer Society Office. The theme for this year is "A mile in my shoe."
Laura Tucker-Longsworth, President, Belize Cancer Society
"We thought that this was a very important event because for the past 4 years this has been happening in kind of not enough publicity and we thought that cancer survivorship is such a key aspect, it is so important to life. It is the image, it is the whole thing."
Lisa Jeffries, Cancer Survivor
"How symbolic that we took these pictures that day on the bridge facing the sleeping giant, I see it as God showing us that with faith and with love we can cross over the other side. Through the sleeping giant I have come to appreciate life. I see how amazing life can be. I carry a new found torch, I will not let it burn out."
"To all women don't give up, as I said, don't let your torch burn out. We can do this, we can fight it."
Kim Simplis-Barrow, Special Envoy For Women and Children, Belize
"It is not an easy journey, we might make it look easy but the emotional, mental, physical toll that cancer does to you it is something that can't be easily explained."
"My message is always to do self-breast examination, yes touch your breast, play with them, know them and be a amazed by them because that is what helped me to realize that I had a lump on my breast."
A few of the women in the previous posters have passed away but many are still fighting to survive.
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