Lilith
05-26-2005, 09:09 AM
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NICOSIA (Reuters) - British women on the Mediterranean
island of Cyprus plan to make the world's longest
chain of bras to heighten breast cancer awareness and
raise funds for research.
Organisers said they will need at least 90,000 bras
and about 10 months to build the chain that they hope
will put them in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The previous record was a 79,000-long bra chain in
Singapore.
"We are asking for women to donate as many unwanted
bras as possible," said Jan Handley, who heads a
cancer patients support group in Cyprus's western town
of Paphos.
"But the key message we want to filter through is to
please, be aware, and get regular screening," Handley
told Reuters.
Organisers have asked for small money donations with
each bra.
"We are getting men and women to come to parties
wearing bras with pound notes pinned to them,"
organiser Gina Ghillyer was quoted as telling the
English language Cyprus Mail daily.
Breast cancer kills about 400,000 women worldwide each year.
NICOSIA (Reuters) - British women on the Mediterranean
island of Cyprus plan to make the world's longest
chain of bras to heighten breast cancer awareness and
raise funds for research.
Organisers said they will need at least 90,000 bras
and about 10 months to build the chain that they hope
will put them in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The previous record was a 79,000-long bra chain in
Singapore.
"We are asking for women to donate as many unwanted
bras as possible," said Jan Handley, who heads a
cancer patients support group in Cyprus's western town
of Paphos.
"But the key message we want to filter through is to
please, be aware, and get regular screening," Handley
told Reuters.
Organisers have asked for small money donations with
each bra.
"We are getting men and women to come to parties
wearing bras with pound notes pinned to them,"
organiser Gina Ghillyer was quoted as telling the
English language Cyprus Mail daily.
Breast cancer kills about 400,000 women worldwide each year.