Coffee Club, Broadway, Newmarket Auckland at 2 pm on July 5
Venkat Raman
Auckland, June 27, 2020
New Zealanders who are keen on promoting study, understanding and treatment of breast cancer will have an opportunity to support a worthy cause next week.
The Pink Ribbon Afternoon Tea, hosted by Legal Associates Partner Ashima Singh at the Coffee Club, located at 2/176 Broadway, Newmarket in Auckland, will be a knowledge-gathering experience, with three women and their inspiring speeches.
The Speakers
Among them would be Labour Party Candidate contesting in the forthcoming General Election at the Manurewa Constituency, Dr Padmaja Koya, a renowned Gynaecologist & Laparoscopic Surgeon practicing in Central Auckland and Robert Harris Roaster Franchise Owner Bhavna Singh Chahal.
Tickets to the event, priced at $35 per person, can be obtained from Ashima Singh on Phone 021-02417161 or (09) 2799439. Email: office@legalassociates.co.nz
Ashima Singh said that bookings should ideally be made by June 30, 2020.
“As well as raising funds for the Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand, the Pink Ribbon Afternoon Tea Event will also enable attendees to understand the fact that early detection is the best protection against this terrible ailment and mobilise financial resources for the Foundation, which is doing excellent work in this field,” Ashima said.
About Breast cancer
According to the Ministry of Health, breast cancer is the third most common cancer in New Zealand, claiming 600 lives a year.
“The risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer increases with age. It is not common in women under the age of 50 but 70% of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer and about 80% of women who succumb to the ailment are 50 years or older,” the Ministry website says.
It said that some women are at greater risk of breast cancer because there is a history of close family members having the disease.
“Most women who develop breast cancer have no relatives with the disease. Even among women who have relatives with breast cancer, most never develop the ailment,” the website said.
About Breast cancer Foundation
In the early 1990s, five New Zealand doctors decided it was time to talk about breast cancer.
They were sick of seeing patients turn up too late with cancers that could have been cured if they had been found earlier. One of the big problems was that women were embarrassed to talk about breast cancer, even with each other.
In 1994, they founded The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation, and launched the first Annual October Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign supported by Estée Lauder.
Since then, thousands of lives have been saved, thanks to education about breast cancer signs and symptoms, the introduction of Mammogram Screening Programme (enabling earlier diagnosis), and advances in treatment.
The name was changed from The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation to Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand (BCFNZ) in 2017.
Key milestones
BCFNZ has played a key part in many milestones in breast cancer awareness and treatment, through funding research and medical grants, education and patient support programmes and advocacy.
The Foundation is governed and guided by two professional bodies, The Board of Trustees and the Medical Advisory Committee.
Members, who are all leaders in their respective fields, are dedicated to achieving the Foundation’s vision of zero deaths from breast cancer.
They dedicate their time and expertise voluntarily, and BCFNZ owes its existence to the commitment of these hard-working individuals.
The Foundation also has three diligent and highly respected patrons, without whom, the Foundation would not have been able to achieve such success in advocacy, awareness and education, research and support.
About Ashima Singh
Ashima Singh is Barrister and Full Partner at Legal Associates, a law firm based in the South Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe.
Her firm won the ‘Supreme Business of the Year,’ ‘Business Excellence in Marketing,’ ‘Best Employer of Choice’ and ‘Best Medium Sized Business’ Awards at the Indian Newslink Business Awards in 2018 and she won the ‘Best Businesswoman of the Year Award’ in 2016.
Ashima heads the Property and Commercial Law side of the business and has been responsible for exceptional practice growth, developing quality systems within the practice, and building a team of legal experts who cater to the many ethnic groups in South Auckland.
