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Breast Cancer Foundation Adviser Celebrates Birthday with Trash Collection Campaign
The Foundation's Finance and Programming Advisor, Martin Lancaster, is making a difference for his 65th birthday this month. He plans to collect 65 bags of plastic trash from our shorelines and rural areas over the next couple of months, and he is launching this effort as part of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Lancaster hopes that his endeavours will draw attention to the brand new Breast Cancer Foundation website recently launched (https://breastcancerfoundation.ky/). He would also like to encourage anyone who wants to support his efforts to make a donation to the Breast Cancer Foundation using the donation button on the website and reference “plastic 65”. (https://breastcancerfoundation.ky/shop/support/donate/).
Hopefully these contributions will help to bolster the Foundation’s depleted coffers arising from the postponement of its annual gala this year due to COVID-19 restrictions. In this respect, we are very pleased to announce that a very generous supporter, Mr. Louis Massicotte, has already got the fundraising off to a great start with a donation of US$5,000!
Martin will be using pink 30-gallon trash bags to collect the 65 bags of plastic, so these will be very recognisable as being associated with the Breast Cancer Foundation once collected. Martin plans to start the exercise in the Mangrove Loop at Camana Bay on Wednesday 27th October, and has been given logistical support by Dart to aid him in his endeavours.
After that, Martin will be traversing Grand Cayman to find pockets of plastic and will also be visiting each of the Sister Islands to collect plastic trash there too. We will be chronicling his progress regularly on the BCF social media pages.
In order to assist Martin in locating concentrations of plastic trash, he is asking all supporters of the Foundation to please contact the Foundation by emailing info@bcfcayman.com with tips as to where large concentrations of plastic may be found on our shorelines and in our rural areas. So please do come forward with suggestions as to any areas Martin should visit to contribute to his collection of 65 bags of plastic.
