Zurak Cancer Foundation

Zurak Cancer Foundation; a policy oriented and service delivery youth run non-governmental organization (NGO) providing innovative solutions to the cancer prevalence in the country through awareness, education and free screening programs in hard to reach communities and slums and Claron Health International; an innovative medical and preventive health insitution providing access to quality healthcare to the Gha naian community signs a Memorandum of Understanding to work together in healthcare delivery in Ghana. The partnership entails screenings for specific types of cancers including prostate, breast and cervical cancer. It also includes training programs for the Zurak Cancer Foundation team and health promotion services to create awareness on disease prevention in the Ghana. Over the years, Zurak Cancer Foundation has expressed much interested in integrating early detection and screening into health systems and invest in a skilled workforce to deliver early detection.. Both...

Yesterday, our volunteers attended the convergence on sustainability at Ashesi University to participate in a dialogue to map the emerging trends of sustainable innovative solutions and the type of leadership required to deal with issues related to sustainable development. The Mzuzah Africa Convergence on Sustainability has emerged with the understanding that only Sustainable Thinking Leaders are capable of providing the most ap propriate solutions to the present problems of African societies. Mzuzah provides a platform for debate, analysis and collaboration between current and future leaders interested in discussing sustainable solutions to the regions challenges with innovative lens. Only innovation and creativity will ensure workable, stable and realistic solutions to Africa's contemporary issues. This initiative forms part of our One Year Volunteer Program to provide the platform for young people to engage in strategy and policy design for future innovations.

The stories of independence keeps ringing since 1957. The songs of our freedom is only a state of mind. We are not excited about taking feeding money from our parents at age 61. We are not excited about the health policies in Ghana. We are not excited about the broken health systems in Ghana. We are not excited about the poor access to quality healthcare in our rural communities. We strongly believe in the prospects of our youth organization to take control of the problems facing our country yesterday, today and tomorrow and we are looking forward to the Ghana we wished for. God Bless Our Homeland Ghana.

The Accra Team visited the Agboblosie Market (Sodom & Gomorrah) in January to educate the market women on cervical cancer and human papillomavirus in our local dialect.

In January, our Kumasi Team visited the Ayigya Market for our “Market Invasion” event. This initiative is a cervical cancer awareness program to educate these our market women on cervical cancer and human papillomavirus in our local dialects

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.

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.

Ninche Shot It, a media company providing services in photography and media coverage aimed at highlighting the positives in deprived societies and inspiring others to attain greatness through using available media to tell stories came to terms with Zurak Cancer Foundation to sign a distribution, promotion and exclusive media rights to provide the platform for “Ninche Shot It” to document the projects of Zurak Cancer Foundation for the year 2018. This partnership is expected to upgrade the brands of both parties through media. As part of Zurak Cancer Foundation transition process, the organization deem it necessary to propagate its endeavors through credible media platforms. We are so excited about this partnership and we looking forward to create change through the use of media.

Interview Session: Judge One Abdul Samed Zurak - CEO of Zurak Cancer Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Scholar & One Young World Ambassador. Interview Session: Judge Two Emily Sheldon  - Director of Health Innovation (Impact Hub Accra) & Africa Lead (Impact Hub) Interview Session: Judge Three Ibrahim Rauf - Finance Decision Support Analyst (Vodafone), Head of Prostate Cancer Team & Administrative Director (Zurak Cancer Foundation)

We will be glad to invite you to  Impact Hub Accra  for our Interview Session on Saturday, 25th November, 2017 at 3 PM. Have the opportunity to meet and interact with the Director of Health Innovation  Emily Sheldon  to explore the prospects of  Impact Hub Accra  in solving the problems of the society through innovation. Kindly check your email for further details.

We are so glad for an exciting and wonderful month of great impact for our Breast Cancer Awareness Program. We are highly impressed with the progressions and our drive for high impact solutions to cancer prevalence in Ghana. We would like to express our profound gratitude to  SO Social Multimedia ,  Sweden Ghana Medical Centre-SGMC , Ghana Technology University College ,  Ghana Institute of Journalism  a nd Clottie Muronda for the great support for our Breast Cancer Awareness Programs. We made our impact generations based on our social media reach for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp and impact generated from the Breast Cancer Awareness Program in collaboration with So Social Multimedia. Unfortunately, we couldn’t push forward our sub initiative and signature event (Market Invasion) for Breast Cancer due to delays from our partners but all the same we are excited about the impact we keep making into the lives of Ghanaians. Find the breakdown of the impact ...

Our CEO, Abdul Samed Zurak had the opportunity to share his story to the One Young World audience at the Johnson & Johnson booth. The interview highlighted the community based impact Zurak Cancer Foundation is running to stem the prevalence rate of cancer. It was an inspiring moment as it creates an avenue for dialogue with the audience on the need to foster the fight against non-communicable diseases especially in Africa.