The Leah Charity Foundation, an Ilorin, Kwara
State based non-governmental organisation has intensified its effort at
reducing the incidence of breast and cervical cancers in women through a
sensitisation of the women all over the state.
According
to the Founding Trustee of the NGO, Mrs. Omolewa Ahmed, who addressed a press
conference on the occasion of the World Cancer Day in February, the NGO has “unfolded
a massive awareness campaign in every possible media outlets on cancer. There
are jingles on radio & TV. We have also secured the collaboration of
musical artistes in the state, who have recorded songs which will gain regular
air play as a way to alerting our people to the menace of cancer.”