19/10/2026
We’re still ecstatic over such a meaningful day 🥹❤️
These wonderful women helped create an exciting new path in health care for our day programme clients last week. We couldn’t be prouder.
They made it possible for a mass visit of 15 of the women we care for to get mammograms at St George’s Hospital. The hospital also provided a free welcome kai for the women.
The big-group approach helped give our women clients the support and confidence to access this very important health screening process. When life is hard and chaotic, self-care things like this can be forgotten, and others needed help with all the forms involved.
The idea came to our women’s day programme lead Jo (third from the left) during a craft session with women at the Mission.
A volunteer mentioned she had just had a mammogram. One of the clients aged in her 50s replied “what is a mammogram?”
Another said she had had a lump in her breast for years that had never been looked at. When the group was asked how many had had a mammogram before, 90 percent said no.
But they said if Jo organised mammograms they would go, especially if they could do it together.
And that’s exactly what happened.
ScreenSouth Ltd made the mass booking happen and they want to “nurture this important connection with the Christchurch City Mission, so that more wāhine can access the care they deserve”.
