High Commission raises funds for Breast Cancer

The Australian High Commissioner, Robyn Mudie, and the staff and friends of the Australian High Commission, have marked International Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October) with a fund-raising morning tea. The event was designed to increase awareness of the disease, which is the most common cancer among women worldwide and the second leading cause of death in women according to the World Health Organisation.

The event raised funds for the Sri Lanka Cancer Society, and was attended by the Society's President, Tony Anghie, and Public Education Board Chair, Mrs Merle Weerasinghe. The funds raised by the High Commission will support breast cancer awareness and education in rural Sri Lanka.