Global Focus on Cancer: Cancer Awareness Program for Factory Workers in Vietnam
Rye Brook, Estados UnidosVietnam
Year Founded:
Project Stage:
2011
Organization type:
nonprofit/ngo/citizen sector
Start-Up
Budget:
$10,000 - $50,000
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Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
We have entered into a multi-disciplinary partnership with a US clothing company, their local affiliates, international and local cancer control experts, local health NGO’s and public sector facilities. We use a local health NGO to deliver a basic cancer awareness program to factory workers in the work environment. The US clothing manufacturer pays for the implementation of the program. The workers will receive an education in cancer facts, including information on:
Causes of Cancer
Common types of cancer
General Risk Factors
Truths and myths
Prevention and early detection
Nutrition and exercise
Lifestyle/behavior modification
We also provide information on locally available and affordable screening and treatment services.
Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?
The costs of implementing the program are covered by the US clothing manufacturer. They have absorbed them into their annual budget. To grow the work, we will partner with additional manufacturers and charge a fee for GFC's services. This will fund us in order to scale and adapt the program for different regions/countries.
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
No one else is addressing the issue of cancer control in this capacity that we are aware of. BSR HER/Project works in a similar way in the factory setting teaching female and maternal health to female factory workers. We have collaborated with them using their program as a model with which we have adapted our program.
Founding Story
In 2006 founder and photographer Carolyn Taylor was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. After her recovery, she felt compelled to help others. In 2010, she won a British Airways contest of 10 flights. She won the contest based on a series of essays about how she would use these flights for a photo project to show that the battle against cancer was universal. She traveled to 14 countries, photographing cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, and clinicians, to show the global face of cancer. In many of the countries she visited there was a desperate lack of awareness and education about cancer, and minimal to non-existent support networks in place. Along with the inspirational people she met motivated her to create GFC to address these issues.