Nine SCR Peña Deportiva first team players have joined the Movember movement, an initiative that serves to raise awareness and research into prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention among men.
Since 2003, Movember has funded more than 1,250 men’s health projects around the world, shaking up men’s health research and transforming the way health services reach and support men.
It is a movement that began in 2003, when two young men, Travis Garone and Luke Slattery, decided to grow a mustache in order to raise awareness of these diseases. This initiative, which began with just 30 followers, ended up becoming, a year later, a foundation: Movember Foundation. Since then, this trend, which began in Australia, has spread around the world to countries such as New Zealand, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Norway, Switzerland, France and Spain.
9 players join the Movember movement
Thus, since 2003, every November, men who want to be part of this movement and help to make these diseases visible, grow a mustache. That is why, during these weeks, Álvaro Barrero, Lalo, Jesús Fortes, Diego Cámara, Samu Vázquez, Edu Frías, Loren, Estellés and Chema Moreno have joined the challenge and have grown mustaches.
“We wanted to show solidarity with all those men who are going through a bad time in their health. All of us may be touched one day and we all know someone who has gone through this directly or indirectly. The Movember movement also helps to bring a smile to the faces of many people because it is not usual to grow a moustache nowadays, so if thanks to this gesture we help someone to visit the Movember website and discover everything that this organization does, we will have achieved our objective”, said Chema Moreno in statements to the club.
According to the Movember Foundation, by 2030, the organization hopes to have reduced the number of men who die prematurely from these diseases by 25%.
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