Canterbury Museum in the pink this month

Canterbury Museum has joined 18 New Zealand landmarks and turned pink this month to support Global Illuminations, an initiative established in 2000 by Estee Lauder Companies to raise awareness of breast cancer.
 
“Global Illuminations acknowledges the enormous impact that breast cancer has on communities around the world,” said Van Henderson, chief executive of the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation. “We’re very grateful to Canterbury Museum for agreeing to light the Museum pink at night. It’ll really help raise awareness of the fundraising activities going on in Christchurch during October.”
 
Museum Director Anthony Wright says the Museum lights up pink every year to help raise awareness and support Breast Cancer Month.
 
“This is a global awareness campaign that the Museum, as a socially responsible organisation, is pleased to support. Almost everyone knows someone who is affected by breast cancer, so it’s great to be able to support such an important initiative in this way,” he says.
 
Funds raised through the NZBCF’s Pink Ribbon Street Appeal (October 11-12) and through community fundraising events will go toward research into new targeted treatments, life-saving awareness and education programmes, and support for women going through breast cancer. 
 
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