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

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...

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.

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.

Opening Ceremony: It was a great honor to be part of the opening ceremony for the One Young World Summit as we had the opportunity to listen to great leaders and Noble Peace Laureate like  Kofi Annan , Bob Geldof, Professor Mohammed Yunus,  Juan Manuel Santos - Presidente  and  Tawakkol Karman It was a great inspiring moment and defining moments with celebrities such as  Tinie Tempah

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.

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.

January is the awareness month for cervical cancer. Zurak Cancer Foundation invaded the Nima Market to educate market women on cervical cancer as part of its awareness program for the month. Ghana has an estimated population of 8.57 millions women ages 15 years and older who are at risk of developing cervical cancer. The current estimates indicate that every year 3,052 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 1,556 die from the disease. Cervical cancer ranks as the 1st most frequent cancer among women in Ghana and the 1st most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age. Moreover, this is due to the prevalence rate of the unknown causative virus for cervical cancer called the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Also, cervical cancer is detected at a latter stage in Ghana due to lack of awareness and regular screening for the disease. The Zurak Cancer Foundation team had an interactions with the market women this disease in order to test their knowledge and p...

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