Why this matters.
Breast cancer is Ghana's most common female cancer, and its most survivable when caught early. The barrier is not treatment. It is access to screening, information, and the confidence to seek help.
Five years of showing up.
Since 2022, Walk In Pink has reached four communities and screened over 2,200 people, many for the very first time. The fifth community joins this October. At Walk In Pink 4.0 alone, more than 1,000 people were screened in a single day.
At Walk In Pink 3.0 in Aglorkpovia, 20 suspected cases were found, and among them was one man. Most could not afford medical care, and some had sought treatment at shrines, so the cancer had already spread by the time we reached them. The foundation carried them through test after test to begin treatment, and felt the full financial weight of what follow-up care costs. That is why early detection, and the funding behind it, saves lives.
Walk In Pink 5.0 targets 1,500 free screenings in a single day. Every contribution and every walker brings a woman closer to a screening that could save her life.