POB Expands with College Chapters!
Hello everyone! Lia and Kaitlyn here! Just a couple of months ago, Protect Our Breasts launched its first chapter on the UMass Amherst campus. At our first meeting, approximately thirty students learned about getting involved with our group and mission:
“To share the conversation about chemicals in everyday products found on the grocery shelves that contribute to breast cancer; empowering women to make safer choices to protect their breasts during the most vulnerable periods of their lives.”
With the chapter, we hope to give students the opportunity to get involved with our events as well as to learn how to protect themselves, along with their family and friends. As a member, they also get to be a part of the rewarding experience it is to inform others, and potentially save lives. On October 12th, the chapter helped engage fans at the UMass Amherst vs. Boston College Hockey game at the Mullins Center. This game marked the one-year anniversary of the Protect Our Breasts launch. Since then, we have been able to reach thousands of students, parents, and families, and create a following of over 2800 on Facebook (with hopes of reaching 3000 by the end of the year!)
This spring we are starting a Protect Our Breasts chapter at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, so that students there can start to spread the word, and to educate their campus. We hope to start chapters at as many college campuses as there is interest, so that we can spread the word to people who are at the most vulnerable age for exposure to endocrine disruptors and carcinogens.
Our next UMass chapter meeting (tomorrow night Thursday, December 6 at 6:00 pm Isenberg 106) will be combined with a documentary viewing of Pink Ribbons, Inc. Everyone is invited, so bring your friends and come see what Protect Our Breasts is all about, and how you can get involved! We’ll be sharing Quinn Popcorn, a PFOA and GMO-free organic popcorn! Come learn why this is a safer choice than conventional microwave popcorns! It is open to students of all the five colleges and others who might be interested, so it should be a fun event!
Protect Our Breasts grows through the efforts of people who are involved and informed. So, share the information, share the mission, and share the idea of starting a chapter! We encourage anyone who would like to get involved with Protect our Breasts to contact us either on our Facebook page or by emailing us at protectourbreasts@gmail.com.
