About Us

The Project is the initiative of TANYARADZWA CANCER ZIMBABWE, an independent organization formed by a cervical cancer survivor, TALENT FADZAI YAKADO. From the time Talent started having health problems to the stage she was diagnosed of cervical cancer and finally got treatment. Talent went through hell- due to unavailability of state of art for cancer managing equipment, inadequate counseling services of cancer, unavailability of expensive cancer drugs and the waiting period for to get treatment and counseling services-incompetent nurses. This has become the motivation for her to initiate a project aimed at advocating for the adequate wholesome cancer treatment in Zimbabwe. She decided to go in the frontline by starting community cancer education programs, outreach cancer programs, workshops, seminars, talk shows, campaigns aimed at disseminating information, educating the underprivileged members of the societies.

Talent and friends, established TANYARADZWA CANCER ZIMBABWE after the realization that cancer mortality rate has surpassed that of the HIV and AIDS rate, yet is not receiving enough attention and publicity it deserve as the number one killer disease.

Underprivileged or marginalized communities have to be empowered with the knowledge of the various cancers, educated through workshops, seminars, stories of cancer survivors, information dissemination of pamphlets in English, Shona, Ndebele and other languages.

Many people in our communities suffer from cancer because they do not know what it is, they blame it on witchcraft, they seek treatment at local medical institute, they are given clinical treatment and go back home with painkiller tablets , they are referred to hospitals where they are frustrated and they go back home untreated. This is what TANYARADZWA’s work aims to improve through community based screening outreach programs, to educate the public about the cancers, where to seek treatment and management of the disease.. TANYARADZWA has forged partnership with churches, social networks, communities in Mashonaland East Province and is taking its outreach to schools, health institutions , women clubs and social gatherings to raise awareness about cancer screening testing, dissemination of information, conducting workshops, seminars, cancer survivors talking positively about their experiences and how they discovered they had cancer.

Cancer has become the number one killer disease in Zimbabwe, yet even the Ministry of Health and its partners do not give it to attention it deserves.