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Vespa riders campaign for breast cancer awareness month
By Muath Freij - Oct 28,2017 - Last updated at Oct 28,2017
A charity ride was organised on Friday to raise awareness of breast cancer (Photo by Muath Freij)
AMMAN — Around 40 Jordanians took to the streets in their Vespas on Friday to raise awareness of breast cancer. Ashraf Al Fakhouri, the deputy director general of Darwza Motors, Jordan’s distributor of Vespa, said that October is designated worldwide as breast cancer awareness month.
“We organised this campaign in cooperation with the Jordanian Vespa club. We decided to hold an event to raise awareness for breast cancer in line with Al Hussein Cancer Centre’s campaign ‘Promise us to test,’” he told The Jordan Times at the gathering in Jabal Luweibdeh.
He said that the charity ride started from Rainbow Street, and went through the Boulevard, finally reaching Abdoun.
Fakhouri also that the donations collected by the Vespa riders will be sent to the centre.
Participant Ayman Taqatqasaid that he took part in the campaign to support women, describing the issue as “too important to ignore”.
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