THE Mount Gambier Breast Cancer Awareness Group celebrated 20 years in the community over the weekend with a high tea held at the Commodore on the Park.
An important community resource for two decades, the group provides help for those with breast cancer in addition to those with lymphoedema.
Group member Jill Gilmore said she was excited to celebrate the major milestone.
“We celebrated with all of our major sponsors and donors at the event,” she said.
“It was a really good way to showcase where the money goes and what our group does in the community.
“We just wanted to say a big thank you to the people who give to our charity and show them how much it helps.”
Its main project, the Helping Hand Bag initiative, contains $600 worth of vouchers and is given to those fighting breast cancer.
The vouchers aim to ease the financial burden that comes along with the disease but also puts money directly back into the community.
“We get such amazing feedback from the bags we could never stop doing them,” Ms Gilmore said.
“There is such a financial strain with breast cancer treatment, having something small like the Helping Hand Bags is just an important way for us to support the community.
“It is the same as our support for lymphoedema, we want to do whatever we can to help out and I think the community has really been behind us to help us do that.”
After 20 years, Ms Gilmore said the group still has plenty more to give and is looking forward to the future.
“We have an exciting project in the pipeline that we cannot announce just yet,” she said.
“But we are just really looking forward to keeping these going and hopefully building on what we have from the past 20 years.”
