In 2004, their co-worker and friend Jocelyne Sioui had a relapse of breast cancer, only this time the cancer was terminal. They rallied around Sioui, and did what they could do for her, as most co-workers and friends do. They put together a fundraiser, and raised $3,000 to buy Sioui a scooter, to help her get around in the last months of her life.

The group of women decided to make the fundraiser a yearly event, and donate the money to a breast cancer charity. Breast cancer charities depend on fundraisers, so much so, they actively make very public pleas for monetary donations each year. But no one wanted this group of women's money, unless they were willing to give it anonymously. The problem, as the breast cancer charities saw it? The group of women are exotic dancers. So, the money the dancers raised last year went to a local hospice instead.

This year, Rany Xanthopoulo, executive director for The Breast Cancer Society of Canada, a non-profit registered national charity that raised close to a million dollars last year for breast cancer research, with its Dress Down Day and Mother's Day Walk fundraisers, has stated they will be proud to accept the donation. As Xanthopoulo expressed so well, "Our bottom line is that any woman can get breast cancer. It doesn't matter what they do, what their profession is." Exactly my thought.