Yesterday, International Women’s Day, the popular Antena 3 program ‘El Hormiguero’ began in a different way: its usual collaborators gave the baton to a group of women who began to dance in the middle of the set as soon as the music played. They were women belonging to the Metastatic Breast Cancer Association.
The reason for the presence of these women goes beyond the fact that Women’s Day was celebrated yesterday, and is that their leap to the small screen came after having launched from A Coruña a viral and solidarity challenge to make this disease more visible and raise awareness of the importance of research to achieve a cure.
‘El Hormiguero’ listened to the request made by the national association through the numerous videos shared on different social networks in which it was requested More research for more life. There were numerous people individually or as part of a group who danced the choreography and got CMM to be heard.
The creator of this ingenious idea was the Coruña Olga Sande, a member of the association, which some time ago launched a fun initiative through social networks: the participants had to record a video dancing to the choreography of the popular TV show and finish it by making a + symbol with your fingers and yelling “More research for more life.” And so, these women danced yesterday, accompanied by the presenter Pablo Motos.
After dancing with this group of women, Motos gave way to Pilar Fernández, president of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Association, who explained that the objective of this initiative is to make known “the reality” of these women and thus achieve a ” solution “for them.
Fernández has indicated that this typology of the disease represents 20% of cancer patients, and for “which, to date, there is no effective treatment.” “We are that other part of breast cancer, the one that died,” said this spokeswoman for an association to whose challenge, among others, the Firemen and the Local Police of A Coruña, as well as the Dépor Abanca footballers, have responded.
All these groups of A Coruña danced to the rhythm of the mythical song of this television program to ensure that these women could take their solidarity initiative to the television plate. And they succeeded.
