Doctor of different kind raises breast cancer awareness

The Hunter Breast Cancer Foundation today announced a new partnership with local business The Plumbing & Electrical Doctor that will help to support fundraising and awareness for breast cancer throughout the region. The partnership was launched with the unveiling of a newly decorated plumbing vehicle, complete with HBCF’s pink livery.


(Service Manager Ben Nadjecki and the Hunter Breast Cancer Foundations Rosalie Taggart show off The Plumbing & Electrical Doctors new pink plumbers van.)


HBCF President, Rosalie Taggart, said that raising community awareness of breast cancer was of vital part of what the Foundation does in the region.

 

"Support from organisations such as the Plumbing and Electrical Doctor add great value to this grass root support organisation," Mrs Taggart said.


The Hunter Breast Cancer Foundation is a non-profit organisation, which provides support for women and men diagnosed and being treated for breast cancer in the Hunter, and for their families. It does this through transportation to and from treatment, providing post operative comfort cushions and assisting with professional lawn maintenance and house cleaning services for people undergoing treatment.


The Foundation supports the education of young people who have parents with breast cancer. It donated medical equipment to a number of hospitals and funds scholarships young students whose parents are undergoing treatment. The Foundation also sponsors a wig library at Canberra Private Hospital and donated a series of textbooks for use by oncology nurses.

 

A proud supporter of the local community, The Plumbing & Electrical Doctor service manager, Ben Nadjecki, is happy that his company can provide assistance to such a valuable cause:

 

”So many people are impacted by breast cancer, everyone is aware of it and almost everyone knows a person that has been affected” said Nadjecki. “It can be easy to forget that the efforts of charities like HBCF is all done by volunteers.”

 

“While a lot of people do donate, they are just one off donations. They need ongoing support and we hope that we can help them with that.”

 

Mr Nadjecki said that plans are to offer all customers the opportunity to make a donation when tradespeople are out on the job, “Our guys are out in the community every day so this is a perfect chance for us to help out. What we want to do is give every customer we visit the chance to donate”

 

“Everyone needs a plumber or an electrician every now and then, but you never know when you are going to need the support of a charity like HBCF. The Plumbing & Electrical Doctor wants everyone we visit to know who HBCF is and what a great job they do," he said.

 

Donations can be made through The Plumbing & Electrical Doctors tradespeople, or made directly to HBCF through at www.hbcf.org,au