Relay For Life Information & Training Session
American Cancer Society [ACS] will have members of their Global Relay For Life team on Island this week.
Last in Bermuda in 2014, when Bermuda was officially on-boarded as the 21st country to join the Global Relay For Life family, Lauren Lineweber, ACS Global Alliances Manager and Caitlin Devos, ACS Cancer Action Network lead volunteer will be meeting and working with key stakeholders to share Relay’s bigger picture, check-in on the local event and provide tips and tools to ensure Bermuda is on mission and meeting the need.
“We are excited to host Lauren and Caitlin from the American Cancer Society,” says Azuree Williams, co-chair of the Relay For Life of Bermuda event. “They will have the opportunity to meet with sponsors, team captains, vendors, survivors & carers, and volunteers; all the people who are Relay For Life and help us fund our mission.”
Bermuda’s Relay For Life teams will benefit significantly from the American Cancer Society’s visit. Lauren and Caitlin will be holding a Relay For Life information and training session on January 25th at Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute from 9 am – 12 pm.
The morning is geared to Relay For Life team participants, new and returning. ACS will share the secrets of successful RFL teams and provide tips and tools to help teams with organisation, delegation and reaching their fundraising goals. Attendees must register online here.
“Relay For Life is the worlds most impactful fundraiser” adds Deborah Titterton Narraway, chief marketing officer, Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre.
“In just six years, Relay For Life of Bermuda has raised over $4.5 million providing equal access to cancer prevention programmes, early detection and treatment services provided by Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre. Several of those years, the Bermuda event was the single largest Relay For Life fundraiser in the world!”
“We are extremely proud to be able to say that our community, the Relay For Life of Bermuda community, was the single largest donor when we built the radiation therapy unit in 2017,” continues Ms Narraway.
“Relay For Life of Bermuda raised and donated $2.2 million towards the then $10 million capital campaign. Now open for three years, our radiation team have treated over 403 residents and visitors to our island, who before would have had to be overseas for weeks at a time to receive treatment or gone without if they could not afford the $40,000-100,000 treatment costs.”
For information on Relay For Life of Bermuda, visit www.bermudarelay.com. To register for the January 25th ACS training session visit here.
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