Silence: It isn’t always golden!
Kath’s Scrapbook
Kath’s 3 C’s of Life
Our Bodies Ourselves Health Heroes Awards
**Who’s Your Women’s Health Hero? Our Bodies Ourselves USA wants to know.***
Dear Collegues/Friends,
As you know I have lobbied for 15 years now to raise the profile of Gyn/Sexual Health. Below is an opportunity for me to raise the profile of the International Gyn Awareness Day.
Millions of global women have Gyn issues – your vote could help give an International voice assist to help save women’s lives or life time complications.
It would be much appreciated if you could send/encourage your networks to also vote. Good health to you.
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Dear Kath, I’m please to let you know you have been nominated for Our Bodies Ourselves Women’s Health Hero award by Hayley Solich. Our Bodies Ourselves’ Board of Directors staff will chose one winner, the other will be determined by a public ratings system located on the contest website. Public voting ends May 8, 2009. The highest overall ranking will receive the Audience Choice Award. So don’t forget to ask friends, family/co-workers to rate your entry. Good luck! To view all entries please click here. General Contest Information
Wendy Brovold – wendy@bwhbc.org www.ourbodiesourselves.org/heroes.asp, Communications & Marketing Manager, Our Bodies Ourselves,
5 Upland Road #3,Cambridge, MA 02140, 617-245-0200 (p), 617-245-0201 (f) ,
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Kath Mazzella
www.speakingopenly.com abn: 80 616 529 918
Gyn Cancer Survivor/Advocate-Speaker
Changes start with action – let’s celebrate
International Gyn Awareness Day 10 September 2009
Founder/Life Member GAIN Inc. www.gain.org.au
Gynaecological Awareness Information
Queens Birthday honour for Kath
I am very pleased to announce that I have received an Order of Australia Medal honour for the Queen’s Birthday celebrations.
It is a complete honour and I feel very privileged to have my work recognised.
I am hoping that this honour will help me to advance the cause of getting an International Gynae Awareness Day event more widely celebrated on 10 Sept every year. I encourage you to participate in the Day this year by organising an event in your local area. Gather the women together and invite some medical practitioners along to share information. It only takes one person to make a difference and that difference could save another’s lives. Knowledge is power as they say.
Thanks to all those who have shared in this momentous occasion.
Congratulations to Kath Mazella on her Order of Australia Medal
Congratulations to Kath Mazzella who has been honoured with a Queen’s Birthday, Order of Australia Medal.
Kath has also recently been inducted into the Health Heroes Hall of Fame by Our Bodies Ourselves, US.
Kath is a courageous gynae cancer survivor and has been campaigning for a greater awareness of and research into gynaecological cancers and other ailments.
Kath’s planning an Australia Tour in 2010 in order to promote the International Gynae Awareness Day on 10 September every year.
Our Bodies Ourselves Health Heroes Award Nomination
I am really excited to share that Hayley Solich 0f Women Can International nominated me for Our Bodies Ourselves Womens Health Hero award. From this I was seleceted as one of 20 inductees for the Award for the vision of an International Gyn Awareness Day 10 September annually.
Dear Kath,
We are delighted to let you know that you have been selected as one of 20 Our Bodies Ourselves Women’s Health Heroes! Your work has inspired us all. We would also like to extend our congratulations to Lisa Copen, founder of Rest Ministries (Audience Choice Award), and the Fair Haven (Conn.) Community Health Center Midwifery Group (OBOS selection). After asking readers, “Who’s your women’s health hero?” OBOS received nearly 100 nominations from 12 countries. We knew we couldn’t designate only two award recipients, so we set out to find a way to honor the number of nominees; spotlight the diversity of their work; and celebrate activism in communities around the world. We have decided to make the Women’s Health Heroes an annual event, our own small version of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (without the band reunions). Within five years, we will have inducted at least 100 people who have made significant, long-lasting contributions to women’s health. As one of the first OBOS Women’s Health Heroes, we hope you’ll share the news and consider nominating someone next year. Please respond to this email with your mailing address so that we may send you a certificate celebrating this occasion. With our best wishes & congratulations – Wendy Brovold, Christine Cupaiuolo, Judy Norsigian,Kiki Zeldes – For the Our Bodies Ourselves Board of Trustees
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I wish to be able to encourage the other inductees to celebrate the IGADay in their corner of the world so that the message can now reach many global women to bring these issues out into the public arena. This way more funding, research and most of all support can be given to women of the world. I would also like to thank all those that voted for me and showed their support. I really appreciate your efforts and also to those that left me so many encouraging messages. Thank you so much.
Regards Kath Mazzella
VLV