WeeklySA_AdminCONCERN: Charity group to create engaging platform for dialogue on health concerns
By Priscilla Malinga
The annual Africa’s Luxury, Entrepreneurship, and Opportunities (LEO) Charity Drive last week was engaged in awareness-raising campaign. The event took place at the luxurious Seasons Golf, Leisure Spa, Hartbeesfontein, North West, recently.
It was held to honour women on Mother’s Day with the aim of creating awareness about the subject of fibroids – a condition in which non-cancerous tumours grow in the uterus, understood as a major contributor to hysterectomy – a surgery to remove the uterus.
Bobby Todd and Romeo Manyika of LEO said they were passionate about helping women, especially young girls on health issue particularly as they pertain to fibroids.
The event brought together industry leaders, pharmaceutical giants, and health advocates to address one of the most pressing yet often overlooked health issue.
To match the sentiment as expressed by Todd and Manyika, Soweto girls’ soccer team was handed with toiletries and other essentials for girls as part of charity drive “to make the girl’s child life easier” – also treated to a day of fun by being allowed to enjoy the facilities of the resort as they pleased.
The event highlighted the importance of educating and empowering women about fibroids, providing a platform for discussion and action, and to spark meaningful engagement of creating lasting impact in the lives of African women.
Dr Tim Tebeila, a mining mogul, and the legendary Yvonne Chaka Chaka, also fondly known as the Princess of Africa, with Miss Penny Lebyane, a multi-talented broadcaster and advocate for women well-being, spoke openly about the need of men to get involved with women issues to support and express solidarity with women.
Many women suffer in silence, unaware that help is always available.
The condition, according to medical experts, affects women, mostly African, between the ages of 16 and 60, manifesting as bumps on the wall of the uterus, causing great discomfort.
Although there has been no cause identified for its origin, it is assumed that it affects people with a history of fibroids in families.
The day ended with scrumptious food and drinks offered by the Sky Bar. “As a fibroids survivor I cannot stress enough how important this event was for the girls,” said Lebyane.
Chaka Chaka thanked the organisers for their contribution to empower and educate a girl child.
