Fighting Cervical Cancer in rural Tanzania

$910 of $4,500 goal

Given by 14 generous donors in around 4 months

Every year >270,000 women die from Cervical Cancer, a highly preventable disease; 85% live in developing countries. Let's change the stats!

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In Tanzania I saw two women die from cervical cancer. It was a long, painful death in the corridor of a crowded ward; there was nothing we could do. I felt powerless and hopeless.

I knew that next month it would be different women dying in this corridor, someone else's mother, sister, wife or friend. It's easy to forget this now I have returned to my comfortable life, but I know they continue to die, and I know I can help.

Tanzania has the 6th highest rate of cervical cancer worldwide; one of the deadliest, but most easily preventable forms of cancer. Without education or screening most women have advanced disease by the time it is found. 60% of Tanzanian women with cervical cancer will die from it.

These women need your help! With knowledge about the disease and regular screening, many lives could be saved. Please help me to help them, let’s give them a fair chance at life!!

Anna de Beer's involvement (page creator)

I spent two months volunteering at a hospital in rural Tanzania. During my month on the Maternity ward I met many beautiful women, mostly healthy and in hospital to deliver. But among these healthy women there were one or two who were there to die. Their cervical cancer had been found too late for treatment. Surrounded by the joy of new life, they waited to die.

The Hospital I was at is setting up a screening programme but they are dependent on donations for the majority of their funds. I have carried their burden back to New Zealand; what to us seems a small amount of money can change lives. Cervical cancer causes unnecessary suffering and death. I don't want the women I met to have this terrible fate.

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