CETSED partners Breast Care International for ‘Driver and Breast Cancer Project’

CETSED, a non-profit organization that researches, evaluates and plays major advocacy role in transportation issues as part of its social impact projects for the year 2021 is partnering Breast Care International, a Ghanaian globally recognized non-profit organization specialized in breast cancer and other non-communicable diseases advocacy to train and educate people in the transportation chain, that is, drivers, bus conductors as well as screen over ten thousand passengers especially, women traders in Accra and Kumasi in October this year.

The partnership between CETSED and BCI which has its headquarters in Kumasi is a project dubbed ‘The Driver and Breast Cancer’ and Themed “GETTING THE MEN INVOLVED”.

The partnership has been described by both organizations as important because it is going to help fight and reduce breast cancer cases in Ghana especially, among women traders who are mostly at risk of the deadly disease

Breast Care International (BCI) is an organisation founded in 2002 by Ghana’s first female general surgeon to combat breast cancer, Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai. BCI was formed to organise free health outreach programs across Ghana. In 2015 BCI screened 21,407 women, 16% were screened in October, BCI’s peak month.

The collaboration between CETSED and BCI seeks to get more men especially commercial drivers and others in the transportation chain involved in the breast cancer advocacy, it is designed to focused on expanding the frontiers of CSO’s activism in the transportation and health sectors for the betterment of the people of Ghana.