Zurak Cancer Foundation

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...

It's a wonderful opportunity and a privilege to join the Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development Plenary Session to listen to great leaders on how they are working within their own sector to make impact into the lives of people. It was a pleasure to listen to Noble Peace Laureate Bob Geldof with his delegate speaker on how they are making impact into the lives of people. Noble Peace Laureate, Professor Mohammed Yunus expressed his passion to see the world becoming a better place by sharing his works and his three zeros policy (zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emission) he believes these are the ways to solve the problems of the world and also he expressed his concerns on financial equality where the less privilege get the share of the world's worth. He spoke on the essence of education and entrepreneurship for young people in order to create the atmosphere of poverty reduction in the near future. The most inspiring part of the session follows up w...

Our CEO, Abdul Samed Zurak had the opportunity to share his story to the One Young World audience at the Johnson & Johnson booth. The interview highlighted the community based impact Zurak Cancer Foundation is running to stem the prevalence rate of cancer. It was an inspiring moment as it creates an avenue for dialogue with the audience on the need to foster the fight against non-communicable diseases especially in Africa.

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