Zurak Cancer Foundation

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 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...

This year, we developed a strategy to take our market invasion to the Agbobloshie Market; the largest market in Accra, Ghana. The market is a cosmopolitan environment where dwellings are wooden shacks that lack water and sanitation. The area is also home to armed robbers, prostitutes, drug dealers and others involved in underground markets. Crime and disease run rampant throughout Agbogbloshie, creating an almost uninhabitable environment for humans. Outsiders have nicknamed the area “Sodom and Gomorrah,” after two condemned Biblical cities, due to the harsh living conditions in Agbogbloshie. We are looking forward to to implement our strategies at the market to provide solutions to cancer prevalence in the community.

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...

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 would like to express our profound to each and every individual who applied for our One Year Volunteer Program. Successful applicants have been shortlisted and further details has been sent via email. We will also give a phone call to the successful applicants.  Congratulations  & Thank You For Believing In Us!

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 part of the activities for the Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, Zurak Cancer Foundation stormed the largest second hand clothing market in Ghana called "Kantamanto" a market widely dominated by men to educate them on Prostate Cancer, Prostitis and PSA Test. Over the years, we have expressed interest in reaching out to the less privileged or marginalized individuals with regards to our endeavors and it is part of our dream to strengthen a bond with our beneficiaries to propagate cancer awareness in order to stem the prevalence rate of the disease in the country.

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.

Self-management is an essential component of chronic disease management. Zurak Cancer Foundation joined the discussion to discuss the role of ehealth in chronic disease management during 5th Merck eHealth MeetUp; a platform for conversations around challenges and solutions in scaling eHealth innovations in West Africa to hear from key stakeholders in chronic disease management about the developments so far, the challenges faced and the unique opportunity that lies in using eHealth.

It's a great honor to have our CEO, Abdul Samed Zurak to be part of the eight (8) aspiring young leaders from across the globe selected by  One Young World  as the 2017  Johnson & Johnson  One Young World Scholars to attend the 2017 OYW Summit in Bogota, Columbia in October. This will provide a unique opportunity to engage with global thought leaders to debate, formulate and share innovative solutions  for some of the world's most pressing issues with peers and J&J delegates. This selection comes out of over 2,200 applications received from more than 160 countries for the Johnson & Johnson One Young World Scholarship Program which was open to young leaders on the front lines of delivering care, including health care professionals, family care givers, individual leaders and others working or involved in the health/care giving arena. Read More:  http://www.jjcct.org/strategy/people/one-young-world/

Zurak Cancer Foundation is a policy oriented and service delivery non-governmental organization providing solutions to the cancer prevalence in the country through awareness, education and free screening programs in hard to reach communities and slums. Zurak Cancer Foundation was established on 27 th April 2014 by the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdul Samed Zurak. In Africa, the most prevalent types of cancer are related to infectious agents such as the human papillomavirus and the hepatitis virus. Zurak Cancer Foundation bases its core values on the most prevalent types of cancer such as breast cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer and liver cancer. Last year, Zurak Cancer Foundation joined an incubation space the Merck Entrepreneurial Development Space under the Impact Hub Accra Health Innovation program to scale its endeavors to maximize impact. Awareness Zurak Cancer Foundation provides awareness programs for the most prevalent types of cancers within the ...

Zurak Cancer Foundation has been shortlisted for the Ghana StartUp Awards for the Social Enterprise of the Year Category. The Premium Bank Ghana Startup Awards which is in its 2nd year was designed to reward the works and contributions of startups, such as yourself, to the Ghanaian economy and also create a thriving community of startups collaborating and empowering the Startup Ecosystem. The shortlisting was done by a panel of jury selected from various startup support organizations and partners across the country after public nominations. The Premium Bank Ghana Startup Awards is an initiative of The African Network of Entrepreneurs (TANOE) sponsored by Premium Bank and in partnership with The HelpStation, KPMG, iConceptsPR, Avance Media, Edel Consult, Kumasi Hive, HapaSpace, MEST, GhanaThink Foundation and TentMaker.

Zurak Cancer Foundation held another market invasion at Madina Market to commemorate its 3rd Anniversary. The aim of the event seeks to interact with Market Women and educate them about cervical cancer. It is part of Zurak Cancer Foundation's motive to increase awareness about the disease in order to encourage early detection since most of the cancers detected in Ghana are always at stage 4 which is very bad. Moreover, most of the individuals who expressed interest in the initiative were the head porters (Kayayei) and Zurak Cancer Foundation has started working on a module to develop more initiatives to reach out to the Kayayei.