The 21st an­niver­sary of the Sco­tia­bank Women Against Breast Can­cer 5k was held on Sep­tem­ber 28 at the Queen’s Park
Sa­van­nah.

Each year has been a sym­bol­ic step for­ward with sus­tained mo­men­tum for the ad­vo­ca­cy of women’s health and well­ness.

The 5k em­pow­ers women, help­ing them to be­come stronger and more con­fi­dent, es­pe­cial­ly in con­trol­ling one’s well­ness.

The race start­ed in 1999, 21 years ago. The race be­gan with 300 women run­ning to raise funds for free breast can­cer screen­ing at re­gion­al health cen­tres na­tion­wide. Of­ten when we are part of some­thing, we may not un­der­stand the im­pact that our sin­gle ac­tion has, or the po­ten­tial that the col­lec­tive has to cre­ate a mean­ing­ful dif­fer­ence. How amaz­ing is it that two decades lat­er over thou­sands of women gath­er to­geth­er with fam­i­ly and friends, em­pow­ered—com­mit­ted—be­cause they choose to par­tic­i­pate in this hall­mark ini­tia­tive for the cause.

To date over 19,000 women have ben­e­fit­ed from the pro­gramme, and last year, pro­ceeds from the race were do­nat­ed to The T&T Can­cer So­ci­ety to con­duct breast can­cer screen­ings and aware­ness cam­paigns in rur­al com­mu­ni­ties.

This year’s event was themed Every Stride Em­pow­ers.