Zurak Cancer Foundation

The impact evaluations for the Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in January follows two (2) different aspects of our awareness programs. Zurak Cancer Foundation has leveraged its social media presence to create awareness on cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus (HPV). With regards to our social media platforms we considered our total reach on Facebook during the awareness program and we recor ded 35,064. For Instagram, we recorded 3,051. During the awareness campaign we made 14 posts regarding cervical cancer awareness during our evaluations for Twitter and WhatsApp, we multiplied our followers by the number of posts we made during the awareness campaign. Therefore, we recorded 1,596 for Twitter and 1,232 for WhatsApp. We estimated an impact evaluation of 1,500 during our market invasion events for Accra, Kumasi and Tamale. Finally, our total impact for the January Cervical Cancer Awareness Month stands at 42,443.

The World Cancer Day is a day set aside by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals and objectives of the World Cancer Declaration, which was written in the year 2008. It is an international day marked on 4th of February every year to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. The day was set aside by the international community to increase awareness and education on cancer with the slogan "We can. I can". This year’s World Cancer Day event in Kumasi was a special one as two Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Zurak Cancer Foundation (ZCF) and Institute of Research and Community Planning Ghana (IRCP_GH), partnered to donate some items to the Pediatric Oncology Unit at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region on the Sunday, February 4, 2018 at about 10:00am. Zurak Cancer Foundation (ZCF) is a policy-oriented and service delivery Non-Governmental Organization p

On World Cancer Day, we interacted with students at various Islamic Schools within the Nima - Kanda community to discuss Hepatitis virus and the best way to prevent the spread of the disease.

The Administrative Team held a meeting with Johnson & Johnson today to discuss our SWOT Analysis, SMART Goals and how best to work together to support the organization.

The Zurak Cancer Foundation Tamale team visited the  Lamashegu Market within the Tamale Metropolis to educate market women on cervical cancer.