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 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.

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

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.

Our CEO,  Abdul Samed Zurak  Enlisted Among The 2017 Global ChangeLeader Award Winners For The "Finding Identity & Strength" Category Read More:  https://changegen.com/global-changeleader-award-winners/

The 4th Merck eHealth Meetup With Wayne Miranda - Founder & CEO of Growth Mosaic, Abdul Mohammed - Investment Officer @ Engineers Without Borders & Fifi Michael Nkrumah - COO of tinyDAVID To Discuss Challenges & Solutions In Scaling eHealth Innovations In West Africa.

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.

Ashesi University to discuss sustainable solutions to the problems facing Africa. Moreover, the event seeks to create a platform for only innovation and creativity that will ensure workable, stable and realistic solutions to Africa's contemporary issues. Also, by facilitating dialogue, the event seeks to map the emerging trends of sustainable innovative solutions and the type of leadership required to deal with issues related to sustainable development. The Uturn Africa Convergence on Sustainability has emerged with the understanding that only Sustainable Leaders are capable of providing the most appropriate solutions to the present problems of African societies. Uturn Africa 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. The event is in Partnership with several leading institutions across several countries, including Joh...

Zurak Cancer Foundation held a meeting with Maria Young (Co-Founder of Visualize) from University of Michigan to discuss about a low-fidelity cervical cancer training model that aids healthcare providers to learn how to screen for cervical cancer using Visual Inspection of The Cervix With Acetic Acid (VIA). Moreover, we were joined by Dr Caryn Agyeman Prempeh to also discuss how best to make the model available to healthcare in order to provide low-cost and effective cervical cancer screening

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...