Posted on April 7, 2015
Each year, ADAO dedicates April 1-7 to increasing awareness of asbestos and preventing exposure by bringing together experts and victims from around the world to share, learn, and take action. To view all 7 days of Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW) contributors and content on our landing page, please click here.
Hear Asbestos. Think Prevention.™
This day of Global Asbestos Awareness Week is dedicated to Heather, a Mesothelioma Warrior in the US. Click here to read her story, “The Value of My Life in Dollars and Tears.”
Asbestos Victims’ Candlelight Vigil
Our ADAO community will gathers on Tuesday, April 7, for the last day of Global Asbestos Awareness Week, for a virtual candlelight vigil to honor the warriors fighting asbestos disease and remember those we have lost. Click here to light an online candle which burns brightly for 48 hours. We light these candles with heavy hearts, but also hope for a brighter future without asbestos.
To view the 2015 Mesothelioma Warrior Candle Lighting List, click here.
Global Asbestos Awareness Week is a reminder each year of the importance of education in order to prevent asbestos exposure, disease, and death. You can make a difference. Take action by connecting with ADAO on Facebook and sharing GAAW’s content with your social network. The week’s blogs, infographics such as Asbestos: Legal and Lethal in the USA, and ADAO’s educational resources can easily be shared with friends and family – and may save lives!
Thank you to everyone for their participation in this year’s Global Asbestos Awareness Week! We are deeply grateful for the support of our contributors and those who joined the GAAW conversation around the world. Together, we will ban asbestos. Until then, prevention is the only cure.
ADAO respectfully asks all businesses to refrain from using our Mesothelioma Warrior list for publicity or
marketing.
In unity,
Linda
“Dying of mesothelioma
Tumours join up and become one solid mass likened to hard concrete
Crush organs and literally take your breath away.
Die slow painful death.
I know – I have mesothelioma!”
– Lou Williams, Australia
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“My wish for the future is that we could take asbestos out of our lives, or the closest to zero that could be humanly achieved. There is no statistical data as to the amount of fibres breathed in over time that can be medically proven to have caused Mesothelioma.
I had my exposure from washing my husband’s work clothing, and many people have suffered and are going to suffer from asbestos as a result of unintended exposure. Though the use and importation of asbestos has been prohibited in Europe, the asbestos-exposed people are now suffering and still continue to be exposed to asbestos, as it is in our built environment.
For the sake of our future generations, asbestos must be removed from the world we live and work in. To do that, I believe it requires professional companies operating at the highest standards to continue to remove this category 1 carcinogen safely and make our world a safer place.
I fought against it by having chemo and now my last chance is MK3475, an Immunotherapy treatment which is shrinking my disease very fast. For how long, no-one knows at this point.
We fight on for the future and all our Meso Warriors past, present and future.” – Mavis Nye UK
ADAO sends are sincere gratitude to the McOnie agency for the amazing Global Asbestos Awareness Week support!
Due to past instances of this list being used inappropriately, ADAO and Jill Vaughn agreed years ago to place a watermark behind all names for the protection of victims and families.
Each year, upon the passage of the U.S. Senate’s “National Asbestos Awareness Week” Resolution, in addition to a week of awareness, the Senate “urges the Surgeon General of the United States to warn and educate people about the public health issue of asbestos exposure, which may be hazardous to their health.”