Will we be seeing a month-long of moustache?
Movember a portmanteau of the Australian-English diminutive word for the mustache, “mo”, and “November” and is now celebrated yearly. It all began in 1999 when a group of young men in Adelaide, South Australia who coined the term “Movember” and the idea of growing mustaches for charity throughout the month of November.
In the year 2004, an unrelated group in Melbourne organised an event where 30 men would grow a moustache for 30 days in order to raise awareness for prostate cancer and depression in men.
Adam Garone, Travis Garone, Luke Slattery, and Justin (JC) Coughlin inspired 26 other friends with a desire to “bring back” the trend of growing mustaches, the movement was born. The next year, nearly 500 people raised over $40,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. This group would later become the Movember Foundation charity. Three years after starting the Movember movement, the organization was granted official charity status in Australia. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Movember fever is now being celebrated all throughout the world to raise awareness and support all the men globally. But Movember is not only for men, this is also being supported by the women wearing a fake mustache and participating in events that concerns the cause.
If growing a mustache is not a thing for you, might as well just raise awareness by sharing facts or any details about this certain campaign to raise awareness and educate the public.
It’s Movember and it is time to grow the ‘Mo’ 🙂