NAV: Departments and Services
The Witness Project
The Witness Project is a health program for women in churches and community centers throughout central Virginia. It features a group of women who "witness" about their triumph over breast or cervical cancer. Together, they preach the good news that cancer doesn't have to be an automatic death sentence. The key is to catch it early and get it treated.
The project offers more than just hope, though. It also teaches women some simple things they can do in their own lives to protect themselves against breast cancer and cervical cancer. Things like breast self examination.
Trained health instructors at each program use special breast models to show the audience how they can check themselves for signs of breast cancer. The audience then gets a chance to practice what they've learned by searching for lumps in the models.
In addition, the instructors answer questions about things like Pap tests (a test to find cervical cancer) and mammograms (a special kind of X-ray to look for breast cancer). Women will have a chance to find out where in their community they can have tests done at low (or even some cases no) cost.
The Witness Project is a program that saves lives.
If you want to know what you can do - or if you want to have this program at your church or organization, please call (434) 200-5127.
