Nor'West News: April 18, 2024
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Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
Raw Sisters bring food positivity message to<br />
RAW SISTERS: Margo and Rosa Flanagan are using their passion for food to encourage<br />
other New Zealanders to host a Pink Ribbon Breakfast for the Breast Cancer Foundation’s<br />
annual fundraising campaign.<br />
MARGO AND Rosa Flanagan<br />
are encouraging their fellow<br />
Cantabrians to host a Pink<br />
Ribbon Breakfast in May, after<br />
teaming up with Breast Cancer<br />
Foundation NZ for its annual<br />
fundraising campaign.<br />
The best-selling cookbook<br />
authors, known as Two Raw<br />
Sisters, are using their passion<br />
for tasty and nutritious food to<br />
inspire Kiwis to tuck in for a good<br />
cause.<br />
“We often have the mindset<br />
that ‘it will never happen to me’<br />
but breast cancer is a lot more<br />
common than we think,” says<br />
Margo who lives in Merivale.<br />
“For us, hosting a Pink Ribbon<br />
Breakfast is more than sitting<br />
round a table with a bunch of<br />
women eating delicious food.<br />
Without the funds raised, Breast<br />
Cancer Foundation NZ can’t continue<br />
their amazing job of breast<br />
cancer education and helping<br />
those affected by the illness.”<br />
For Rosa, the role of diet in<br />
breast cancer prevention and<br />
recovery matches the sisters’ food<br />
philosophy.<br />
“We love making and sharing<br />
recipes that make you feel<br />
great. We want to make it easy<br />
for individuals to love food and<br />
experience the positive impact<br />
good food has on our overall wellbeing.”<br />
Breast cancer is the most<br />
common cancer for Kiwi women,<br />
with around 385 diagnosed in<br />
“We want to make it easy<br />
for individuals to love<br />
food and experience the<br />
positive impact good food<br />
has on our overall wellbeing.”<br />
– Rosa Flanagan<br />
Canterbury every year.<br />
Pink Ribbon Breakfast is<br />
Breast Cancer Foundation NZ’s<br />
largest annual fundraiser, where<br />
tens of thousands of Kiwis host<br />
special events throughout May<br />
in their homes, workplaces and<br />
communities.<br />
The money raised goes towards<br />
the charity’s life-saving work in<br />
education, research, advocacy and<br />
patient support.<br />
Registrations for the event are<br />
now open at pinkribbonbreakfast.<br />
co.nz.<br />
“Pink Ribbon Breakfast is the<br />
ultimate show of support for the<br />
3500 Kiwi women diagnosed<br />
with breast cancer every year,”<br />
said Ah-Leen Rayner, foundation<br />
chief executive.<br />
“Hosting is easier than ever<br />
before, thanks a new website that<br />
supports people to register, plan<br />
and track their fundraising goals.<br />
“As a charity that doesn’t<br />
receive government funding, it’s<br />
only thanks to the generosity of<br />
New Zealanders that allows us to<br />
do what it takes to stop women<br />
of dying from breast cancer.”<br />
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