Sharjah: Volunteer riders can now register for the Pink Caravan breast cancer awareness campaign at pinkcaravan.ae, announced the Friends of Cancer Patients society.
The Pink Caravan is an annual pan-UAE horseback ride aimed at spreading awareness among the UAE community. The ride will start in Sharjah on February 15 and travel through the northern emirates, passing through Dubai, Al Ain and ending in Abu Dhabi on February 25.
Riders of all nationalities, both men and women, who wish to volunteer should visit the website to complete the application form. Applicants are required to provide an overview of their equine experience and should specify the emirate they wish to ride in. The ride will cover a distance of around 30 to 40 kilometres, spanning between seven to eight hours each day, with rest periods every 10km and a lunch break.
“The ride has attracted proactive participation from society members and public figures from all walks of life, and we hope to intensify and build further on the success of the previous years,” said Ameera Binkaram, President of the Board of Trustees and a founder member of the Friends of Cancer Patients charitable society. The ride will raise awareness as well as funds to help provide the latest anti-cancer technology and make it available to the UAE community, she added.
Since its launch in 2011 the Pink Caravan campaign has become one of the most prominent annual initiatives by the Friends of Cancer Patients charitable society, which aims to spread awareness and dispel myths about breast cancer, encouraging the UAE community to seek early detection. Over the past three years, 22,877 men and women around the UAE have received breast cancer screenings, via more than 250 mobile medical units.
The ride has become a symbol of the journey breast cancer patients go through during treatment.
