The ManicaPost
Ray Bande
Senior Reporter
LEADING integrated media, commercial printing and packaging company, Zimpapers is living up to the tenets of responsible corporate citizenship by joining the fight against the cancer scourge through the PowerWalk programme to be held in six cities and towns across the country tomorrow.
Participants from other parts of the globe will also be joining the proceedings virtually.
In Mutare, registration of participants was progressing on well both physically and online.
Staffers, Spindy Mhazo, Mercy Ngwebvu and Eunice Sibanda are coordinating the registration process at The Manica Post Building along Hebert Chitepo Street.
Registration fee of $1 000 includes an event themed T-Shirt.
Zimpapers public relations and communications manager (Digital and Publishing Division), Mrs Pauline Matanda, said: “Please, let us support this very worthy cause by first of all participating. We are so excited about this year’s Cancer Powerwalk as we are going physical in Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Masvingo, Gweru and Kariba. In Harare, there will be a 10km run, and 5km, walk while other areas it is only the 5km walk.
“We are inviting participants to register. Let us come in our numbers and walk together towards this worthy cause. Registration can also be done online using the provided link.
“World over, participants can join virtually and post their short videos and pictures on our Zimpapers Facebook page and our Zimpapers Twitter handle. Let us all come in our numbers and walk together towards this worthy cause and support the noble fight against cancer.”
According to the National Cancer Prevention and Control Strategy for Zimbabwe findings, currently, over 5 000 new cancer cases (all types) are diagnosed in Zimbabwe annually and experience has shown that this is just a tip of the iceberg as many cases are not captured by the routine national health information system, because not all patients present themselves for treatment and some deaths are not registered.
Cancer is now killing more people that HIV and Aids, TB and malaria combined, with over 12,7 million people receiving a cancer diagnoses and 7,6 million people dying from the disease globally every year.
