Werribee Masters Football Club players will take to the ground with their wives, mothers, daughters and other important women in mind this weekend in a special Pink Ladies Day event.
The club will host four games this Sunday and run a cupcake stall, raffles and kids activities, with money raised going to the Breast Cancer Network Australia.
Organiser Ambrose Faure hopes to raise about $1500. He’s no stranger to breast cancer, with both his mother-in-law, Lynda Ferguson, and aunt, Judith Higgs, battling the disease in recent years.
Ms Ferguson, now 64, was diagnosed with breast cancer in November, 2012 when a routine mammogram detected a three-centimetre lump.
She had surgery to remove it soon after and underwent chemotherapy and radiation before getting the all-clear.
“It pays to have your regular mammograms, especially when you’re over 50,” she said.
Ms Higgs, now 58, had a history of cysts and thought nothing at first of the new lump she felt growing on one of her breasts.
When the lump was discovered to be cancerous in November, 2013, she underwent a single mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation.
Mr Faure said he had been overwhelmed by the community’s support for the football club event, which he hopes to turn into an annual fundraiser.
The Werribee Masters Football Club Pink Ladies Day is this Sunday from 9.45am at Wyndham Vale North Reserve, Honour Avenue, Wyndham Vale.
For more information, go to www.facebook.com/werribeemastersFC
