{"id":9883,"date":"2018-03-04T06:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T06:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=9883"},"modified":"2018-03-04T06:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T06:34:30","slug":"the-dubai-fountain-turns-pink-for-breast-cancer-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/the-dubai-fountain-turns-pink-for-breast-cancer-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dubai Fountain Turns Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents and tourists to Downtown Dubai witnessed spectacular shows in \u2018pink\u2019 at The Dubai Fountain all evening yesterday (Friday).<\/p>\n<p>Shams Emaar, the corporate social responsibility team of Emaar Properties, decided to turn the colour of all shows, set by Burj Khalifa and The Dubai Mall, to pink, in a gesture to enhance awareness of breast cancer. The initiative is in line with Emaar\u2019s continued commitment to community welfare initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Shams Dubai is extending support to the Pink Caravan Ride (PCR) \u2013 the annual pan-UAE breast cancer awareness campaign by non-profit, Friends Of Cancer Patients (FOCP), that organises events across the seven emirates each year to heighten people\u2019s awareness about the importance of early detection of breast cancer and offers free breast screenings to thousands of citizens and residents of the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>On PCR\u2019s Dubai Day \u2013 March 2, every show at The Dubai Fountain starting 6:15pm was adorned in hues of pink, to bring breast cancer to the forefront of people\u2019s minds, as the PCR continues its weeklong journey to educate everyone \u2013 women and men \u2013 to spot the early signs of breast cancer.\u00a0The PCR spent yesterday in Dubai campaigning for awareness and organised several community activities to help people know more about the disease.<\/p>\n<p>From Sunday, March 4 PCR\u2019s fixed medical clinic is set up at The Dubai Mall, on Ground Level, and will be offering free breast screenings and expert medical advice every day from 4\u201310pm until March 11.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9884\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-27-1024x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-27-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-27-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-27-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-27-624x356.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-27.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents and tourists to Downtown Dubai witnessed spectacular shows in \u2018pink\u2019 at The Dubai Fountain all evening yesterday (Friday). Shams Emaar, the corporate social responsibility team of Emaar Properties, decided to turn the colour of all shows, set by Burj Khalifa and The Dubai Mall, to pink, in a gesture to enhance awareness of breast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9885,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions\/9885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}