Local talents spice up walk for breast cancer

PARTICIPANTS of the walk for breast cancer awareness today will be treated to a night of songs and dances by Cebu’s home-grown talents.

Child singer Patricia Izabel Chua will perform two songs after the showing of a mini-documentary titled ’Opaw’ and an infomercial about breast cancer.

Also seeing action are the girl band Syphone, dance group F the Prime of X from the University of the Philippines-Cebu, acoustic singer Noel Villarba and company, cancer survivors’ fraternity Cebu Cancer Fight Inc. and Visayan Popular Music Festival winner Jewel Flores.

Assembly time is at 5 p.m. at the Fuente Osmeña Circle, while the walk starts at 6 p.m. after a brief program, which includes a firsthand account of breast cancer survivor Filemona Sy about the disease.

The activity, dubbed as “10th Moonwalk: A Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness,” is an advocacy campaign focused on early screening and detection of breast cancer through monthly breast self-examination and mammography, especially for women aged 20 and beyond.

The Eduardo J. Aboitiz Cancer Center (EJACC) of Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. calls on the public to join the walk from Fuente Osmeña Circle to Plaza Independencia in downtown Cebu City.

City Councilor Leah Japson, chair of the committee on health, women and children, is also set to deliver a message at the Fuente Osmeña Circle.

A portion of Osmeña Boulevard that leads to the Plaza Independencia will be closed to traffic by the City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. to give way to the participants.

An added attraction is the “pinkiest” costume contest Pink Yourself Up!, which is open to all the participants.

Mechanics can be viewed at https://rafi.org.ph/event/ moonwalk-walk-breast-cancer-awareness-oct-19.

The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation is also selling breast cancer advocacy t-shirts.

Moonwalk is organized by EJACC, in partnership with the Cebu City government and Task Force Cancer of Cebu City. It is also supported by Cebu Cancer Fight Inc., I CAN SERVE Foundation, She Matters, and CAN with GOD.

Interested participants may call Gina Mariquit at 2563287 or 2546351 or visit www.rafi.org.ph.