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MovemberMovember (a portmanteau from moustache and "November") is an annual event involving thegrowing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues,such as prostate cancer and other male cancers, and associated charities. The MovemberFoundation runs the Movember charity event, housed at movember.com. The goal of Movember isto "change the face of men's health."By encouraging men (which the charity refers to as "Mo Bros") to get involved, Movember aims toincrease early cancer detection, diagnosis and effective treatments, and ultimately reduce thenumber of preventable deaths. Besides annual check-ups, the Movember Foundation encouragesmen to be aware of family history of cancer and to adopt a healthier lifestyle.Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness andfunds for men's health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Australia and New

Zealand. In 2007, events were launched in Ireland, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, ElSalvador, Spain, the United Kingdom, Israel, South Africa, Taiwan and the United States. As of2011, Canadians were the largest contributors to the Movember charities of any nation. In 2010,Movember merged with the testicular cancer event Tacheback.In 2012, the Global Journal listed Movember as one of the world's top 100 NGOs (non-governmentorganization)OriginsSeven Nightly News aired a story in 1999 featuring a group of young men in Adelaide, SouthAustralia who coined the term "Movember" and the idea of growing moustaches for charity

throughout the month of November. In the news report, members of the Adelaide-based"Movember Committee" explained how they came up with the idea for Movember one night in thepub. The group started with 80 men from Adelaide and soon became a nation wide phenomenon.They also aimed to raise money for the RSPCA through selling T-shirts in what they termed"Growing whiskers for whiskers".In 2004, an unrelated group in Melbourne, Victoria organised an event where 30 men would grow amoustache for 30 days in order to raise awareness for prostate cancer and depression in men.This group would later become the Movember Foundation charity.The Movember Foundation has since raised $174-million worldwide, after spreading to SouthAfrica and Europe, reaching North America in 2006. In 2010, participants in the United Statesalone raised over $7.5 million. In 2012, 1.1 million people signed up to participate, raising upwardsof $95 million.

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The MoscarsThe charity launched The Moscars in 2010, an online global user-submitted video contest thathelps Movember participants showcase their involvement in the movement. Submissions cannotbe longer than 4 minutes each, and prizes can be won in several categories.In 2012, head judge Stan Lee awarded the Moscar to South Africa's comedy duo Derick Watts &

The Sunday Blues for their video, "The Movember Song", a parody of Carly Rae Jepsen's hit "CallMe Maybe".International Man of MovemberThe International Man of Movember is chosen from 21 national winners all over the world to wearthe crown and be the face of Movember for a whole year. Each national Man of Movember winneris voted in at that particular country's main Gala Part, held at the end of November, by bothjudges and fans.The very first champion was Mark Knight from London in 2010. South Africa's Anton Taylor won thetitle in 2011, and in 2012 it was Chris Thwaites from New Zealand who won the coveted sash.

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As seen on pictures most of the Movember logos are only text. As seen on the last one the logo ismade out of a snake in shape of moustache, that represents how sneaky the prostate cancer isand that it can happen almost to anyone and the sign of a man doing movember- the moustache.Than there is a movember writing that goes above it and represents that Movember as a charitycan help people who are affected by this form of cancer and is there like a "guardian angel". Andthen there is writing gen13mo which stands for "generation movember of the year 2013" and

shows that every year there are more people and more nations that join these events. The coloursare usually black and white to show the seriousness of this form of cancer although the survivalrate of this form of cancer is relatively high it can still be lethal.