The Chairman/Founder

Abdul Samed Zurak was born in Accra, Madina, on March 26 1994.He began his education career at the Bethany Home Academy through to Hannah School Complex and St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School.He is currently studying Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Management at Wisconsin International University.He was a shy child and studious but by his late teens he had grown to a gangly teenager towering 6'5". He discovered his love of for serving humanity at a very young age.He served the Ghana Red Cross Society at the basic level of his education.He loves soccer and basketball and his favorite teams are FC Barcelona and the Miami Heat.He grew in a very large and an influential family "Zurak Family".His dad and role model,Alhaji Alhassan Baba Zurak is also a well known philanthropist and a business man in the suburb of Accra.Abdul Samed Zurak is quoted as saying "My Education Is Useless If It Doesn't Benefit My Community Or The Less Privileged" so, He set up the Zurak Cancer Foundation.He is very intrigued with creativity and doing something very different. Zurak Cancer Foundation received so many criticisms on it's on set due to the low health priority of cancer in Africa.Moreover, living in a society with low literacy rate it was very difficult to get people to understand the vision of Zurak Cancer Foundation.As time goes on Zurak Cancer Foundation is leading the fight against cancer in Ghana and very soon it will be cancer's turn to be afraid.

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