Write for Hope

Nipissing University / Canadore College Nursing program students launched the Write for Hope Banner at the Education Centre on Thursday.

The Write for Hope Banner is a campaign, a partnership involving Canadian Nursing Students Association (CNSA), Paper Mate and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, is an effort to raise awareness and funds to support breast cancer research and education.

The banner will be hanging in the student centre walkway for the next 10 days and everyone is encouraged to sign it. For each signature up to 5,000 Paper Mate will donate one dollar for breast cancer research.

During September, a Paper Mate Flexgrip Elite pink pen and a bookmark with information from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation will be given to over 20,000 CNSA members across Canada.

“One in nine Canadian women are affected by breast cancer,” says Chrissy Lefkimmiatis, third-year Nursing student in the Nipissing/Canadore program and Ontario Regional Director of the CNSA.

“I know I will encounter those women.”

"As nurses, we are going to be highly influential members in the health care system and will be in a position to help educate women to be breast aware. We encourage students from all programs, as well as staff and faculty at the Education Centre to come out, sign the banner and support breast cancer awareness."


The pink pens will be available in stores across Canada from September 1 to December 31, 2007.