Cancer Awareness Session at HOPE's School Zia Colony

KARACHI, Pakistan - Feb. 6, 2016 - PRLog -- Hope an educational NGO in Pakistan http://hope-ngo.com/Education/KarachiSchool.aspx  aims to provide high quality and free of cost education to children in rural and urban setting. Providing education is one of the priority areas of HOPE an NGO in Pakistan http://hope-ngo.com/Home.aspx, whereby HOPE is currently running five formal schools, out of which one is located at Zia Colony, educating around 800 students under the supervision of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla -Child specialist at Karachi http://www.drmubinaagboatwalla.com/child-specialist-karachi/

Simultaneously, HOPE an educational NGO in Pakistan arrange and promotes activities which includes health education and awareness by following the strategy of teaching its younger ones, at the same time educating the society.

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and annually increasing the burden of morbidity and mortality rate. This implies urgent need to initiate campaigns that will rise awareness about the disease and develop practical strategies to address the cancer burden. Likewise, awareness session was conducted at HOPE’s school Zia colony http://hope-ngo.com/Education/KarachiSchool.aspx in collaboration with medical students from Sindh Medical College. The purpose of this session was to spread awareness about cancer, keeping in line with World Cancer Day 2016, being celebrated globally on 4^th of February.

The session proved to be a quite fruitful one as students of secondary class participated in this session with great enthusiasm and end up by getting lots of knowledge regarding Cancer and its prevention. The students take oath to say no to substance abuse that will reduce prevalence of Cancer.