What is breast cancer?
Breast cancer is a disease.
It is a bad disease.
Many women get breast cancer.
Many women in Germany get breast cancer.
People can die from breast cancer.
But doctors can help.
It is important to find breast cancer early.
It is important that women visit the doctor every year.
Then doctors can help more.
And women with breast cancer can get better.
What is discovering hands?
discovering hands is an organisation.
discovering means finding.
discovering hands means hands that find things.
The organisation teaches women an important job.
These women cannot see well.
Some of the women are blind.
That means they cannot see anything.
But their hands are good at finding things.
Using their hands, these women can find breast cancer.
They check other women’s breasts to find the cancer.
Women with breast cancer often have lumps in their breast.
The blind women can feel the lumps. They can even feel very small lumps.
They can find the lumps faster than doctors.
This helps women get help quickly.
How does discovering hands help?
Some people cannot see well.
Some people are blind.
For blind people, finding a job is hard.
But discovering hands helps these people find jobs.
Then they can have a job like everyone else.
They can do important work with their hands.
discovering hands helps in 2 ways:
- Blind people get a job.
- They help find breast cancer faster.
What does the Futurestories Foundation do?
Futurestories Foundation helps discovering hands.
Futurestories pays for one woman to learn the job.
That woman can learn how to find breast cancer.
