PARIS — Oxford Hills Area Skin Cancer Initiative/Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will receive a free sunscreen dispenser for public use.

The Melanoma Foundation of New England, a nonprofit aimed at stopping the spread of melanoma, is donating the specially-designed dispenser. It will be installed this month.

The dispenser is part of Practice Safe Skin, a program that offers sunscreen as an effective preventive measure to help avoid sun over-exposure year-round. Each sunscreen dispenser is equipped with four 1,000 milliliter bags of sunscreen (670 applications per bag) and contains an all-natural blend of six percent zinc and six percent titanium SPF 30 sunscreen. Application is safe for ages 6 months and older.

Rates of melanoma are rising faster than any other cancer. One person dies every 50 minutes from the disease. Studies show that with daily sunscreen protection, the risk of melanoma is preventable.