This is the month where men are real men. This is the month where men prove their manliness by growing fluff beneath their noses. This is Movember.
Movember - Generation Mo
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, during November each year men all around the world grow mustaches to raise awareness and funds to combat prostate and testicular cancer, as well as men’s mental health challenges. Starting on November 1st, participants completely shave any facial hair, then begin the courageous task of growing and grooming a mo. Men everywhere use their faces as a walking, talking billboard in order to prompt conversation and raise awareness for men’s health issues. Those who’d like to participate in this worthy effort can register at ie.movember.com. After registration, male participants, or Mo Bros as they are called, create a personal Mo Space page to serve as an outlet to promote their Mo-growth and receive donations to the cause from family, friends, coworkers and generous strangers.
Clean-shaven Darren at the start of Movember
Participants can also be part of a Movember group. I’m part of De Perfect Shave, a group in work. Donations received by the individual members, as well as donations received by the group as a whole, will be accumulated into a collective total.
Men aren’t the only ones called to action though, women can play a vital roll as well. After registering, women, or Mo Sistas, can help to raise funds as well as encourage the men in their lives to participate. As we all know, men can be quite stubborn, so it becomes incredibly important that the women in a man’s life are understanding and encouraging when faced with the health challenges their man faces.
What Darren will look like at the end of Movember
Since its inception 10 years ago in Melbourne, Movember has seen over 3 Million participants in over 21 countries globally. Last year alone the Movember Movement was able to raise over $147 million worldwide! Take a moment and realise how amazing that is. So many people scoff at Movember and criticise the mo-growing masses. To those people, I say there are $147 million reasons to praise the Movember campaign. The funds raised throughout the month of Movember are directed through the Movember Foundation to be used to raise awareness, to educate, and to fund much needed research.
Wondering how you can help? Excellent!
Firstly, I would encourage everyone to click through to ie.movember.com to learn more about this outstanding movement. And if your upper lip is getting a little envious of all the awesome MOustaches walking around, then please register and participate! In fact, we’d love you to join De Perfect Shave!
Not really feeling the whole moustache thing? That’s ok too. But you can still help out in a huge way by visiting either De Perfect Shave’s Movember page or my own MoSpace and donate to the cause!
Help us fight the good fight for Men’s Health!
