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What You Need To Know About Movember

What You Need To Know About Movember

If you ever wondered why your male coworkers or friends show up with clean shaved faces on November 1st and end up looking like grizzly bears by the end of the month. You can blame Movember for that. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

What You Need To Know About Movember

Welcome to November! This is the month where all you male friends and co-workers show up with clean shaved faces on November 1st and look like grizzly bears when the month’s almost over.

This challenge is called “Movember” or “No-Shave November.” Aside from showing off their moustaches and goatees. Growing out their facial hair is also to raise awareness and funds for men’s health – specifically for prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention.

How Did It All Start?

Established in 2003, Movember was created by a few friends over a beer in a pub outside Melbourne, Australia. They decided that every November, men will grow a moustache for the month and get their friends, family and colleagues to donate for their effort. They want to take action to live a healthier, happier and longer lives by investing in critical areas like prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention. Both men and women can participate and they can choose whether to Move or to Host.

While many people associate Movember with growing moustaches, this challenge is more than just that. When it started in 2003, they only had 30 members, mostly men, but now has grown into 5 million Mo Bros (men) and Mo Sistas (women).

Funds that they raise are distributed to several of their partners, including the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Prevention Institute in the US.

What is No-Shave November?

No-Shave November is another organisation similar to Movember where they encourage people to donate all the money that they should be spending on hair grooming for the month. It was founded on Facebook in 2009. Aside from growing moustaches and beards, women who want to participate are also encouraged to maybe skip shaving their legs. So everyone can join if they want too!

People who wish to participate can sign up on the fundraising page and make the commitment to reach out to anyone they know for donations during the whole month of November. Here are four ways you can participate (and yes, ladies have opportunities too!)

  1. Grow Your Mo: Pledge to grow your moustache for 30 days and raise some funds for men’s health. It’s ideal to shave your face on November 1st and become the walking, talking men’s health billboard for the rest of the month.
  2. Take The Move Challenge: Pledge to get physically active by running or working out. You can track your progress and raise funds.
  3. Plan A Movement Event: Plan and host any Movember event to help raise money.
  4. Mo Your Way: Create your own challenge. It can be anything you can think of. Your efforts will surely help change the face of men’s health.

With all the supporters coming from all over the world, Movember helped fund more than 1200 innovative men’s health projects in more than 20 countries.

 

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