🌸 This Breast Cancer Awareness Month: A Story of Resilience & Transformation

Meet Dr Sarah Jennifer Maongezi, Project Lead for the East Africa Comprehensive Women’s Cancer Project, a seasoned physician and public health specialist from Tanzania whose life took an unexpected turn. She had the textbooks. She had the solutions. Then she became the case study.

One small lump on her breast transformed her overnight from advocate to patient, from protector to survivor. In this powerful episode, Dr Maongezi shares her personal journey: the fear, the diagnosis, the fight, and the victory. But she didn’t stop there. Her battle lit a spark for change, turning her story of survival into a national and regional campaign to raise awareness, drive early detection, and challenge the status quo for women’s cancer in East Africa.

Join us for an intimate conversation about courage, purpose and hope. If you’ve ever wondered how one life’s shift can change many others, tune in and be inspired.

What We’ll Explore

1. A powerful message for women about listening to their bodies.
2. Turn your story to a weapon of power, refuse defeat
3. How a clinician becomes the patient and what she learned along the way.
4. The Urgency of Breast Cancer Screening and Early Detection in Tanzania and the Wider Region.
5. Building a campaign: leveraging personal story, public health policy, partnerships and community advocacy.
6. How to move from surviving to thriving.
7. How and Why every woman’s voice matters.

Whether you’re a health professional, a survivor, a supporter or simply curious about advocacy and change making, this episode invites you into one woman’s brave journey and the movement she now leads.

CALL TO ACTION

1. LISTEN. Hear Dr. Maongezi's full, inspiring story and let her journey remind you of the power of resilience.

2. SHARE. Amplify this critical message. Share this with the women in your life your mothers, sisters, friends, and colleagues. You never know whose life it might change.

3. ACT

4. JOIN THE MOVEMENT. Follow Dr. Maongezi's work and help turn awareness into action in East Africa and beyound.

Turn awareness into action, message of hope and proactive health.

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A Surgeon's Story: Fighting Cancer with Courage and Compassion in Tanzania

Dr Larry Akoko

MD, MMed General Surgery and Surgical Oncologist

Associate Professor at MUHAS

Prepare to meet a man who is not only a skilled surgeon but a beacon of hope for his nation.

Behind every statistic is a human face.Behind every surgery, a story of courage.

This #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, we are privileged to share the experiences of Dr. Larry Akoko, a Tanzanian Oncologist whose hands and heart are dedicated to the fight against cancer.

He shares:

The hard truths about late-stage diagnosis.

The profound challenges and how he overcomes them.

The complexities of performing life-saving cancer surgery.

The resilience of his patients and the dedicated medical teams.

The moments of triumph that fuel his mission.

His vision for building a stronger oncology framework in Tanzania.

What the world needs to know and how we can help.

This is more than a talk; it's a call to action.

Call to Action: Show your support for global healthcare heroes.

#MeetTheExpert#HumanStory #Oncology #BreastCancerSurgeon #Tanzania #HealthcareHeroes #PatientCare #CompassionateCare #PinkOctober #EarlyDetectionSavesLives #CancerAwareness#BreastCancer #GlobalSurgery #Oncology #PublicHealth #Tanzania #HealthcareAccess #MedicalImpact #Surgeon #FightCancer

Adesunbo Adeniran, owner of Arike Holistic Lifestyle Limited(Arike) and founder of Women Entrepreneurs in Herbs, Spices and Natural Products, discusses the challenges of getting Organic African Spices and Herbs.

Adesumo intends to unite African women to utilize the existing potential of African spices, herbs, markets, research, branding, and marketing to capture the global $ USD 45.61 billion spice and herbs market.

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Mary Rusimbi Mwanzilishi na Mkurugenzi wa Nendiwe Feminist Wellness and Coaching Center

Kutana na Mary Rusimbi Gwiji na Mtaalam wa Jinsia na Bajeti za Jinsia Tanzania, Mmoja wa waanzilishi/Mkurugenzi wa Mtandao wa Jinsia

Mvumbuzi, Mbunifu, Mwanzilishi na Mkurugenzi wa Kwanza wa Mfuko pekee wa Ruzuku kwa wanawake Tanzania – Tanzania Women Fund (Women Fund

Je unajua Tanzania ilikua nchi ya tatu Afrika katika mafanikio ya kutengeneza bajeti za Kijinsia?

Na ilikuwa imefanikiwa na kwenda kwa kasi kubwa kuongeza usawa wa jinsia kwenye mapendekezo ya katiba mpya pamoja na kuongeza asilimia 50 ya wanawake katika uongozi.

Usawa wa jinsia unawezekana kwa kuendeleza harakati zilizoanzishwa sio kufautilia mipango na malengo ya jumla yanarudisha nyuma maendeleo

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Je unajua umuhimi na uwezo mkubwa uliokuwepo kiuchumu kama serikali ingetambua,dhamini na kuwekeza katika wanawake wasikuwa kwenye sekta rasmi ya wanawake masokoni.

 Kutana na Jane Magigita Mkurugenzi wa Equality for Growth na Mvumbuzi, Mbunifu wa 'Sauti ya Wanawake Sokoni'.

Mwanasheria, Mtetezi wa Haki za Wanawake na Haki za Jinsia pamoja na Mwezeshaji wa Sekta isiyorasmi akifafanua uzoefu wake kuhusu umuhimu wa kundi lisilotambulika, lililosahaulika (WANAWAKE SOKONI)na mchango wake katika uchumi wa Tanzania pamoja na umuhimu wa kuwekeza kwao kwa kuwatambua na kuwarasimisha.

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Wakili Msomi Hilda Stuart Dadu ni Mratibu wa Mtandao wa Wanawake Watetezi wa Haki za Binadamu Tanzania (Coalition for Women Human Rights Defenders Tanzania) na Katibu wa Mtandao wa Wanawake Watetezi wa Haki za

Mwanaharakati Mbobezi na Mtetezi wa Haki za Binadamu za Wanawake na Makundi Maalum anaelezea mafanikio

Hilda anasistiza umuhimu wa kuwekeza katika sheria na mifumo bora inayoheshimu, linda na kutekeleza

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Celebrating International Women's Day

Chioma explores the importance of investing in women because ignoring them ignores change and the importance of Africans training their children to take up family businesses and build them to create generational brands and legacies that will outlive them.

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Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress

Join Maria Matui, a Feminist Change Maker Champion in Climate Change and Gender Climate Justice and the Country Coordinator of Gender Climate Change Coalition Tanzania, to explore Tanzania's contribution, success, impact, and challenges in shifting to a green economy and care society in Gender Climate Justice.

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Mercy Bruce-Amanquah, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Francis Faki Amanquah Foundation (FFAF), shares how she honoured her late husband's memory and passion through the creation of a foundation to provide scholarships to five talented and academically brilliant female STEM students in financial need to study undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana (KNUST).

Investment in women is everyone’s responsibility and can be done by everyone.

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Sherekea mafanikio ya wanawake bingwa na mashujaa wa kutetea Lishe Bora na Usalama wa Chakula Tanzania. Kutana na Bi Fortunatha Mmari, Mwanzilishi na Mkurugenzi wa Afco Investment na Mvumbuzi wa Fortune Foods Lishe bora kwa watu wa kipato cha chini Tanzania.

Je, unajua lishe bora ni muhimu sana kwa kina Mama wajawazito kutoka ujauzito unapoaanza mpaka siku 1,000!?

Utapia mlo unachangia kudumaa kwa watoto na magojwa yasiyo ya kuambukizwa kwa watoto na watu wazima na kugharimu serikali fedha nyingi kutibia?

Je unajua kuhusu viatilishi vinavyoongeza virutubisho vinapatikana katika vyakula maalum na kuongezwa kwenye vyakula kwa gharama ndogo na kupatikana kwa urahisi na bei nafuu kuzui kudumaa na utapia mlo.

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