Pink Arrow Pride

Issue: Natural and Societal Disaster Preparedness

Grant Amount: $54,315.00
Lowell, MI
Year Funded: 2011
Organization: Lowell Area Schools

Pink Arrow Pride is a service-learning project between students and their community on cancer awareness and prevention.  Students & partners have established and support a Gilda’s Club-free cancer support center and are:
-Providing a comprehensive cancer prevention and education program to all 4000 Lowell students K-12
-Endowing two scholarships for Lowell students pursuing a degree in medicine
-Working with the Lowell Wellness Organization to provide financial assistance for daily living expenses
for families affected by cancer
Students raise funds through a Pink Arrow Pride football event and additional auxiliary events to support their work.

This year, about 562,340 Americans are expected to die of cancer—that’s more than 1,500 people a day. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. Cancer accounts for nearly 1 out of every 4 deaths in the United States.

The major cost of cancer is cancer treatment. But lack of health insurance and other barriers to health care prevent many Americans from even getting good, basic health care.  According to Cancer Facts & Figures 2009, ‘Individuals with no health insurance and those with Medicaid insurance are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer.’ This leads to higher medical costs, poorer outcomes, and higher cancer death rates.

This service-learning project promotes cancer awareness and prevention and works to assist those in need of emotional and social supports are as well as medical care in Lowell.

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