Movember
Movember (the month formerly known as November) is an annual charity event held during November.
At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants, known as Mo Bros, have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo, raising money along the way to benefit men’s health – specifically prostate cancer and male depression.
Movember culminates at the end of the month at official Gala Partés, Mo-Office and Mo-Town parties where Tom Selleck and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to be the Man of Movember.
While growing a Mo is left to the guys, Mo Sistas (ladies who support their guys or just love Mo’s!) form an important part of Movember by recruiting Mo Bros, helping to raise funds and attending the highly anticipated Gala Partés.
But it’ s not all fun and games, so why the extreme behavior?
Which ever way we look at it, men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy for men is five years less than for women.
The obvious question is why?
Men lack awareness about the very real health issues they face. There is an attitude that they have to be tough – “a real man” – and are reluctant to see a doctor about an illness or go for regular medical checks.
Movember aims to change these attitudes and make men’s health fun by putting the Mo back on the face of fashion and in the process raise some serious funds for key men’s health issues, including:
Prostate Cancer: because every year 2,900 Australian men die from prostate cancer and over 18,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Depression in Men: because one in six men experience depression at any given time but most don’t seek help.
Movember belongs to the following groups:
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Anne van Alkemade
nice one. :o)
Is that you, Mr Godfrey?
Tom Godfrey replied
:) noooo just a figment of my imagination. I do have a mo, but it is a fair bit more subdued than that :)
coffeetea
great design! :)
Tom Godfrey replied
thanks ct.
meaganjorgensen
haha awsome!
Tom Godfrey replied
:) thanks meagan
Keith Reesor
Congrats on Home Page Feature Tom!!
Tom Godfrey replied
thanks Kreesor – weird must be in at the “Mo”ment :)
Angie Seiffert
hmm, never heard of Movember, is that anything like Octvember?
Tom Godfrey replied
Hi Angie. A good thing really – raises awareness and funds related to men’s heath issues see
here
if you want to find out more. As far as I know it is just an Aussie thing