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CH𝐒𝐮𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 - 𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰.
Year 12 Kambala student, @sophiee.alexander, recently appeared on The Today Show to share her mission to increase sun safety education. Chris O’Brien Lifehouse is proud to support Sophie and her advocacy, which has resulted in an Australian-first sun health program being piloted at Kambala this week. This workshop will involve learning about the ingredients of sunscreen, how to identify a potential skin cancer, and how to generally care for your skin.
Having lost her father to squamous cell carcinoma (a non-melanoma) skin cancer at the young age of 8 years old, Sophie is using her personal experience to help increase education of sun safety and de-stigmatise the beauty trend of tanning for girls her age. As Sophie remarks, “a natural tan is not a good tan, it’s not that you need to be scared, just aware”.
We commend Sophie for her dedication in advocating for awareness on sun safety and wish her the best for the roll out of the first school workshops this week.
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