Voices TogetHER – Spotlight on Teal Sisters Foundation
27 February 2025
Voices TogetHER is our monthly series shining a light on both people and programs striving tirelessly to inspire, educate and ultimately reach girls and women with information and services to reduce cervical cancer risk among women today, and protect girls in the future.
Our February installment features our partners at Teal Sisters Foundation, an organization founded by Zambian cervical cancer survivor, Karen Nakawala, to build a movement to eliminate cervical cancer in the country and globally.
Our new video focuses on Teal Sisters’ commemoration of World Cancer Day earlier this month with a public event and a school-based HPV vaccination campaign. It’s a great encapsulation of Teal Sisters’ holistic response to cervical cancer prevention – ensuring that adult women are informed about HPV and its link to cervical cancer and other HPV-related cancers, and providing screening and treatment services for adults while simultaneously offering HPV vaccination for Zambian girls. This ‘mother daughter approach’ is an effective means of prevention and care.
The efforts of groups like Teal Sisters show how a motivated community can come together to preserve women’s health. Visit their website to learn more about their tremendous work.
In 2024, Teal Sisters became one of the newest awardees of TogetHER for Health’s Cervical Cancer Grants Program, which funds innovative cervical cancer prevention projects we think can make a wider difference by showing what works. Through our Grants Program, we’ve enabled the training of hundreds of health care workers and reached over 30,000 women and girls across 9 countries to date.
We hope you enjoy our new installment. Let us know if there are other stories you’d like us to share!