The festival committee of the Barrière-Saint-Marc district and the senior residence Le Jardin fleur, in Orléans, organized a blue and pink march on Saturday, October 5, to liven up the neighborhood and socialize seniors, while fighting against breast cancer.
Take pink October, add a touch of blue week, mix well and you will obtain the blue and pink walk: a 2 kilometer walk departing from the Domitys senior residence le Jardin Fleudi, Saturday October 5 in Orléans.
The Barrière-Saint-Marc festival committee collaborated with the Flower Garden with multiple objectives: as part of Pink October, to raise awareness of breast cancer screening and raise funds for research (free participation of walkers); as part of blue week, offer an outing to seniors and offer them a meeting with local residents; finally liven up the neighborhood.
“Outings like that help”
Daniel, 81, resident at the Jardin Fleuri, was on the walk out of “the desire to donate his piece to help research, while joining the group”.
The theme is close to his heart.
“My wife Christiane died in August from ovarian cancer. The illness was very tiring for her, which was our reason for joining the residence.”
Daniel (empty)
The illness was the worst. “Today, it’s hard to get over it,” he says, very dignified. “But outings like that help. Tonight, I’m going to say to his photo, ‘Honey, I’m past have a good day.”
This other resident, aged 87, also does “all the outings that bring me closer to a normal life”. Not that the residence is not good, she explains, full of humor, “but I was better at home!”A break halfway for a bite to eat.
“Prevention is important!”
She stops, catches her breath (“I shouldn’t have smoked”), says that she herself is “in remission from breast cancer. I am totally for screening, but also vaccines… Prevention, It’s important!”
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If around fifteen residents joined the march on Saturday, we also saw around twenty members of the festival committee and residents of the neighborhood. Like Annie, who came to visit a resident friend, or volunteer Dominique:
“We are all concerned, we all know someone confronted with the disease, and it affects all generations. We must be united and talk about it!”
Annie and Dominique (empty)
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