CIDA Update…. and Our Need for More Dollars!
In April of 2011 MEMO applied to the Canadian International Development agency for matching grant funds for help with expanding our life saving breast screening program in Cuba. Over the next five years it would allow us to have a total of 12 mobile breast screening clinics which would effectively screen a million women with a saving of 480 women’s lives a year. Unfortunately CIDA denied our request (the fifth since we began in 2004) because “…your proposal should have…