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.

Women form an integral part of community and socio - economic development. We have great interest in providing opportunities to young women in our country to form part of the decision making process of our organization. Our portfolio places high priority on women as the beneficiaries of our initiatives. Today, we celebrate the strong women in our organization contributing their efforts and time to make Ghana a better place.

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.

On World Cancer Day, our Tamale Team visited the Tamale Children’s Home located at Yohani to donate assorted items and raise awareness on Childhood Cancer.

The Zurak Cancer Foundation team in Kumasi met to discuss upcoming projects and orientation of new members to the projects of the organization. The meeting was held at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) with majority of our students from the university. The team developed strategies to provide interventions for cancer prevalence in the region and.

Our cervical cancer team visited the Agbobloshie Market to conduct a survey for our upcoming market invasion. This will enable to the team to develop a strategy for our market invasion initiative. The market invasion initiative is a cervical cancer awareness program to provide cervical cancer education and screening to market women. This initiative is expected to encourage the market women to pay attention to their health especially the human papillomavirus; the causative virus for cervical cancer. According to Wikipedia, the local economy of Agbogbloshie is based on an onion market serving immigrants to Accra from the greater Tamale Region (Dagbani) in the north. Unemployed immigrants turned to scrap metal collection, including auto scrap, to supplement incomes. The population of Agbogbloshie consists of economic migrants from northern and rural parts of Ghana, where living standards are growing worse, causing people to move to urban settings, such as Agbogbloshie. Conditi...

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.

The CEOs of Zurak Cancer Foundation, Abdul Samed Zurak and Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT), Ms. Osayi Alile together with Ndifreke Okwuegbunam, Head of Programmes, ACT Foundation met today at Labadi Beach Hotel to discuss the prospects of expanding ACT Foundation’s projects in Ghana. Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation is a grant making organization established in 2016 to support local, national and regional non - profit organizations working to address challenges and associated vulnerabilities across the African Continent. Their vision is to leverage relationships to create effective social impact solutions across Africa, with a Mission to build sustainable societies by engaging initiatives that unleash potential and empowers beneficiaries. Their focus areas for intervention are Health, Entrepreneurship, Environment and Leadership. It’s a great pleasure meeting with the ACT Foundation team and we are looking forward to great collaborations on projects soon.

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 ...

It's a wonderful opportunity and a privilege to join the Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development Plenary Session to listen to great leaders on how they are working within their own sector to make impact into the lives of people. It was a pleasure to listen to Noble Peace Laureate Bob Geldof with his delegate speaker on how they are making impact into the lives of people. Noble Peace Laureate, Professor Mohammed Yunus expressed his passion to see the world becoming a better place by sharing his works and his three zeros policy (zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emission) he believes these are the ways to solve the problems of the world and also he expressed his concerns on financial equality where the less privilege get the share of the world's worth. He spoke on the essence of education and entrepreneurship for young people in order to create the atmosphere of poverty reduction in the near future. The most inspiring part of the session follows up w...

The Johnson & Johnson One Young World delegates and scholars had the opportunity to get together before the One Young World Summit. The event which was hosted by Johnson & Johnson sort to match the scholars together with their buddy teams and the entire team of Johnson & Johnson at the One Young World Summit. Our CEO, Abdul Samed Zurak had the opportunity to meet with his buddy team and have a conversation on how to make an impact in Ghana through Zurak Cancer Foundation. Currently, our CEO and his buddy team made of expects from the Johnson & Johnson global team are working together with the administrative team of Zurak Cancer Foundation to strengthen the grounds of the organization and inspire the administrative to develop strategies to sustain initiatives under Zurak Cancer Foundation.

As we approach the end of the September which is the Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, we have made evaluations of our impact for the Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Our evaluations were based on our social media reach and the events during the awareness month. The impact was generated based on the reach we acquired from our facebook posts on prostate cancer together with the number of our followers whiles evaluations for instagram is based on the number of impressions of our posts on prostate cancer and number of followers. We also totalled the number of individuals in our WhatsApp groups multiplied by the number of posts on prostate cancer in September. Finally, we summed up the impact generated from our major events (In-House Prostate Cancer Awareness Program with Medi-Moses Prostate Center, Pharms & Pros Initiative & Market Invasion: Prostate Cancer Edition) to evaluate our total impact for the Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. We are so excited with the numbers we have ...

This September, Zurak Cancer Foundation with support from  Prostate Cancer UK  developed an initiative dubbed "Pharms & Pros" in partnership with the largest pharmaceutical retailers in Ghana to donate prostate cancer leaflets and booklets to the public. This initiative seeks to provide the public with much information about Prostate Cancer, Prostatitis and PSA Tests. We are so excited about these partnerships and we are looking forward to maximize impact and prostate cancer awareness in Ghana.

As part of our awareness program for the Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, the Zurak Cancer Foundation visited the Medi-Moses Prostate Center for a training program on Prostate Cancer Awareness, Education and Treatment processes. This initiative seeks to provide more information and first hand practical experience to the team as they embark on their prostate cancer awareness programs for the month.