LuLu Hypermarket Qatar has donated QR125,000 to Qatar Cancer Society (QCS) to support its programmes and plans, it was announced Monday by the latter.
The donation came from the revenue of the 'Shop and Donate' campaign launched by LuLu Hypermarket during last October by allocating part of the sales of more than 600 products during the 'Blossom' campaign for breast cancer awareness.
The cheque was handed over to QCS general manager Mona Ashknani by LuLu Hypermarket regional manager Shanavas P M in the presence of regional director Shaijan M O and other officials both sides, in a ceremony at LuLu Regional Office on D-Ring Road.
Ashknani honoured the operators of LuLu Hypermarket and thanked them for their continuous support to QCS, while stressing that fight against cancer needs to join efforts and co-operation between all institutions.
The meeting discussed future ways of co-operation between the two parties and how to develop partnership between them in order to raise public awareness of the disease and enhance methods of prevention and early detection.
LuLu staff in all branches wore the pink ribbon that expresses breast cancer to encourage women to do periodic screening for cancer, and highlighting the most common types of cancer among women globally and locally, as well as spreading the culture of adopting healthy lifestyles to prevent it.
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