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How can I go about changing the color of a specific cause's Awareness Ribbon?
As most of you probably know, the colors of the Awareness Ribbons cover MANY different causes! For example, the yellow ribbon represents Adoptive Parents, Deployed Soldiers, Endometriosis, Equality, Hope, Liver Cancer, Liver Disease, Missing Children, Missing Persons, Suicide Prevention, Testicular Cancer, and Childhood Cancer... Is there a way that an individual can change the color for a specific cause? If so, HOW? Who or what organization do I need to address? I'm at a loss here, so I thought I'd see if anyone else has tried (or succeeded) at this same task.
Panda~
I can't e-mail you, so I hope you return to this question to see this. Thank you for your candid response, and for the insight you gave. I will try these avenues in the hope that I succeed! For the record, I'm not sure what type of cancer your son has ~ but my best friend's teen daughter just passed away from Osteosarcoma. This is a very rare form of cancer that, incidentally, has affected 3 girls in our small city. I am passionate about the issue, and want other parents to be aware of the disease! Granted, I was not 'passionate' before it affected my personal circle, but that's often the way it works... I hope that your son continues to be a SURVIVOR and kicks his cancer to the curb! Now I'm off to do some more research based on your leads.
Thank you!
3 Answers
- PandaLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
You can do anything that you please. None of the Awareness Ribbons are etched in stone . . other than possibly the pink ribbon for breast cancer, red ribbon for AIDS, and the yellow wristband for all cancers. The rest were just basically made up by various organizations or single individuals like yourself. So, I am not sure exactly what you had in mind. My son has a rare cancer so as a group we all decided on dark blue wristbands. My son's class in high school decided to honor him with an orange wrist band with his name on it.
So, you can do just about anything you please and not worry about anything 'official' . . although it helps to get other people on board with it too.
I'm not really sure by your question what your intention would be here . . if you are a member of a group that wants to bring awareness to a specific type of cancer than contact members of the group for a discussion. It really depends on what you are trying to do . . if its just for you than anything goes . . if it involves a group than you need to contact members of the group for their feedback.
As an interesting tidbit . . the original color for breast cancer awareness was a peach colored ribbon. It was changed to pink when the creator of the ribbon couldn't reach an aggreement with the Estee Lauder Cosmetic company . . they wanted to promote her ribbon for breast cancer research. The original creator, Charlotte Haley, did not want to commercialize breast cancer and refused the offer. (turns out she was right to be concerned about the marketing).
History of the Pink Ribbon
- 5 years ago
I was once wondering the equal thing, i've been working on child abuse realization and that i by no means knew it had a color until not too long ago. I fairly wanted to do a different colour. Blue is so basic. So expectantly we are able to get an reply
- ?Lv 45 years ago
i % to propose you abandon this entire stupid thought of ribbons to start with. what's the reason of the ribbon? fairly of procuring "interest ribbons", why now not only donate that funds to despite purpose you %.?