Around 27,000
people die from Cancer every year
in Kenya

Mission

The charities mission is reduce cancer-related stigma, raise awareness of the disease and advocate for better healthcare for cancer patients from underprivileged communities in Kenya. We actively work in the slum areas with the goal to empower it cancer sufferers with a better knowledge and understanding of their illness so they can make more informed choices about their treatment and future. We also assist our members through education, recreation and connecting them to organisations that offer resources that allow access to acceptable standards of treatment.
Objectives:
  • No one should suffer in silence or feel isolated
  • No one should be neglected and discriminated against
  • Everyone should be treated with dignity
  • Everyone has a right to equal healthcare regardless of their financial status

Goals

  1. Reduce the number of deaths from Cancer in the underprivileged communities in Kenya
  2. Providing much-needed support, assistance, and individual attention that is crucial for cancer patients physical and mental well-being
  3. Provide knowledge that will inform cancer prevention and control in Africa that will reduce the number of deaths from cancer and improve the quality of life of cancer patients, survivors and caregivers
  4. Achieve equal access to Healthcare for all  

Stop
Cervical
Cancer

with president uhuru | october 2019

History

Symbol of Hope Warriors is a community-based organization (CBO) based in Kariobangi, Nairobi, Kenya. It is a cancer support group whose objective is to stop stigma in the face of cancer. It began in 2017 after the founder, Milicent finished her cancer treatment but registered in 2019. We hold monthly meetings for emotional support. We offer free accommodation to cancer patients receiving treatment coming outside Nairobi. We offer support to newly diagnosed in terms of Navigation through treatment. Through food donations received from individual donors, we equally share with patients. We also donate dignity packs to girls and boys and also engage them together with their guardians in awareness on HPV vaccination and it’s importance.
Since 2017, we have been able to impact more than 5000 beneficiaries in food dignity packs, health insurance fund support, tuition fee support, prosthesis, accommodation, and psyco-social support.

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