Zurak Cancer Foundation

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

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...

We have successfully completed our selection process out of the high numbers we recorded for the interview session. We are so excited about the candidates we selected for the One Year Volunteer Program. We have selected individuals with exceptional qualities and commitment to change. Based on our selection, we developed a strategy to have control over the southern, middle and northern belt of the country as we are looking forward to capture the whole of Ghana when we are 5 years in operation. Next year, we will be 4 years and we strongly believe this is the best beginning.

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 great pleasure meeting with  Bristol-myers Squibb Foundation   which promotes health equity and seeks to improve the health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases by strengthening healthcare worker capacity, integrating medical care and community-based supportive services and mobilizing communities in the fight against diseases

Zurak Cancer Foundation partnered with the largest pharmaceutical retailers in Ghana; Randy Pharmacy, East Cantonment Pharmacy, The Mall Pharmacy & Radiance Pharmacy with support from  Prostate Cancer UK  to distribute booklets and leaflets based Prostate Cancer, Prostitis and PSA Test education as part of the Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

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/

It is a year into the launch of your NGO. You have dedicated so much time and energy towards building it from the ground up. Your NGO’s cause is no ordinary undertaking. It is not one of the many hurriedly put together groups that just wants to do some good for the feel of it. You are very passionate about this thing you are undertaking. Why did you start it in the first place? 7 years ago, an auntie of yours died from a cancer that affected her liver. The doctors said it was Hepatitis. The ailment was something you had heard of before but you never gave it much thought. In fact, most people you know have never given it much thought. But it is deadly and has killed other people you know beside your auntie. So, you started kick started a movement to raise awareness. You were hell bent on getting people informed about cancer and the many variations it manifests itself into. With a year gone since the launch of your foundation, you decided to throw a little celebration to mark the ...

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.

Lipton Ghana initiated an initiative dubbed "Think Do Heroes" to reward individuals developing initiatives to impact positively in the lives of Ghanaians.

Since 2013, One Young World (OYW), a not-for-profit organization that gathers together the brightest young leaders from around the world, to develop young leaders and strengthen their leadership capacity. To date, 45 young Johnson & Johnson employees (aged 18-30) from across the globe have participated in the annual OYW Summit, providing them with the unique opportunity to learn from inspirational world leaders and to debate, formulate and share innovative solutions for some of the world’s most pressing health issues. This year, 35 global young leaders from Johnson & Johnson will attend the 2017 Summit in Bogotá, Colombia in October. The Scholarships are open to those aged 18-30 years who are working for, or involved with underserved communities in the health/care giving arena across the spectrum of care (from family care givers to health care professionals) such as NGOs, social enterprises, community based organisations and individual leaders. In total, 2,249 appl...

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.

As part of our 3rd Anniversary, we developed an initiative called "Founder's Diary" on social media to share some our stories to inspire our audience regarding our journey. During the cause of the initiative we share an experience we encountered some three (3) years ago when we visited the Sweden Ghana Medical Center for a tour and we were rejected. Lucky for us, the CEO Madam Janine De Nysschen read our story and she gave us the opportunity to tour the facility in order to have a fair idea on cancer treatment in Ghana and West Africa.