Zurak Cancer Foundation

In January, our Kumasi Team visited the Ayigya Market for our “Market Invasion” event. This initiative is a cervical cancer awareness program to educate these our market women on cervical cancer and human papillomavirus in our local dialects

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 Administrative Team held a meeting with Johnson & Johnson today to discuss our SWOT Analysis, SMART Goals and how best to work together to support the organization.

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

Our Chief Executive Officer has been featured in the One Young World video for the World Economic Forum. Our leader is a One Young World Ambassador and Johnson & Johnson Scholar. He has been selected to discuss the biggest risks facing the country and the way forward to the problems. Enjoy the video below!

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...

Zurak Cancer Foundation partnered with Hubtel Ghana; an online or mobile payment platform which provides innovative and comprehensive solutions to businesses in Ghana. This partnership seeks to generate a revenue stream for Zurak Cancer Foundation to fund its projects and support cancer patients through crowdfunding. Meanwhile, you can dial *713*4245# to donate to Zurak Cancer Foundation via Mobile Money on all mobile networks (MTN, VODAFONE, AIRTEL & TIGO).

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 would like to express our gratitude to each and every one who made it for our interview session yesterday. We are overwhelmed by the turnout and professionalism exhibited by the candidates. We have had the opportunity to listen to exceptional individuals who are motivated to create change in their society. It is part of our dream to build a strong and committed volunteer hub to work together in providing solutions to cancer prevalence in Ghana. We have began selection process and successfully candidates will be notified by Wednesday, 29th November, 2017.

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!

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 is very inspiring to listen to businesses driving change to solve the problems affecting the world. We had the opportunity to listen to the stories of great companies like L’Oreal, Accenture and Johnson & Johnson. Annet Eijkelkamp, Director of Employee Engagement of the Johnson & Johnson Global Community Impact Group (EMEA) region and Amy Richmond,  Director of Child Protection in Emergencies – International Programs, Save the Children share the impact Johnson & Johnson and Save The Children are making into the lives of children. It is with great pride to be part of the Johnson & Johnson Scholarship Program at the One Young World Summit as we join hands to together to support Save The Children initiative to provide solutions to the problems facing children around the world by donating a photo and with every photo we donate Johnson & Johnson donates a dollar to the Save The Children initiative. Moreover, as part of the Johnson & Johnson One Young Worl...