Shellharbour's Chamberlain brothers are using sibling rivalry for a good cause.
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Dane, Corey and Beau are each captaining a team in this year’s Movember challenge, to raise as much money as they can for men’s health.
So far, Team Dane is leading the charge with $1960 in donations - but the younger brothers are catching up fast.
The Mo Bros - and their respective teammates - will start off November clean-shaven but by month’s end they’re hoping to have some pretty ‘‘wicked’’ upper lip hair.
It’ll be a prickly journey, but one the brothers three are looking forward to.
‘‘Mum always organises a breast cancer fundraiser in October and we’ve helped out with that, but then two years ago we decided to get on the Movember bandwagon and raise money for men’s health,’’ Dane Chamberlain said.
‘‘We raised $6000 in the first year and $17,900 last year and this year we hope to top that. We’ve already got more than 50 members amongst us and have got a lot of support from the Shellharbour community.’’
The aim of Movember - established in Australia in 2003 - is to get men to grow moustaches to spark conversations and raise funds for prostate and testicular cancer and men’s mental health.
In the past 12 years, more than four million Mo’s have sprouted on the upper lips of men around the world, raising $580million for over 800 men’s health programs in 21 countries.
Movember’s Asia Pacific director Jeremy Macvean encouraged Aussie men to help change the face of men’s health by committing to grow a moustache for the 30 days of Movember.
‘‘Every Mo acts as a hairy billboard for men’s health, encouraging blokes to take their health seriously and to take action,’’ he said.
‘‘Standing tall behind the Mo Bros are the Mo Sistas, encouraging men on the month-long quest to Mo and often the catalyst behind men thinking about their health.’’
Sign up, grow and donate at movember.com.