Movember

Movember (the month formerly known as November) is an annual charity event held during November.

At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants, known as Mo Bros, have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo, raising money along the way to benefit men’s health – specifically prostate cancer.

Movember culminates at the end of the month at official Gala Partés, Mo-Office and Mo-Town parties where Tom Selleck and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to be the Man of Movember.

While growing a Mo is left to the guys, Mo Sistas (ladies who support their guys or just love Mo’s!) form an important part of Movember by recruiting Mo Bros, helping to raise funds and attending the highly anticipated Gala Partés.

But it’ s not all fun and games, so why the extreme behavior?

Which ever way we look at it, men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy for men is five years less than for women.

Creating Awareness.

Men lack awareness about the very real health issues they face. There is an attitude that they have to be tough – “a real man” – and are reluctant to see a doctor about an illness or go for regular medical checks.

Movember aims to change these attitudes and make men’s health fun by putting the Mo back on the face of fashion and in the process raise some serious funds for key men’s health issues, including:

Movember is proud to partner the Irish Cancer Society for the raising of funds and awareness of Prostate Cancer across Ireland.The money raised by Movember will be donated to Action Prostate Cancer – an initiative of the Irish Cancer Society. It will be used to educate men on risk factors for developing prostate cancer, provide information and support to men if they have been diagnosed with prostate cancer and highlight the need for men to be treated in specialist centers (major cancer treatment hospitals) where they will have access to best practice treatment and care provided by multidisciplinary teams.

The Movember Foundation is an Australian based, not for profit, charitable organisation that implements the Movember event each year across the globe.

The Movember event creates awareness around men’s health issues and raises funds for carefully selected beneficiary partners in each country that are also charitable organisations, with a focus on prostate cancer.

Since its inception as a formal charity in 2004 Movember has raised over $30 million (AUD) globally, significantly increasing awareness of prostate cancer in the community, and is continuously working to change the attitude men have about their health.

Movember’s beneficiary partner in Ireland is the Irish Cancer Society, which was founded in 1963. The Irish Cancer Society is dedicated to preventing cancer, saving lives from cancer and improving the quality of life of those living with cancer through patient care, research and education. All funds raised by Movember in Ireland stay in Ireland and go directly to the Irish Cancer Society.