Expanding its services to women with cancer in Tanzania, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon began working with local agencies in 2015 to provide transportation for patients in rural areas to treatment centers in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza

1. Pink Ribbon Red
Ribbon Helps
Provide
Transportation to
Cancer Centers
By Ehsanollah Bayat

2. Expanding its services to
women with cancer in
Tanzania, Pink Ribbon
Red Ribbon began
working with local
agencies in 2015 to
provide transportation for
patients in rural areas to
treatment centers in Dar
es Salaam and Mwanza.
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3. Transportation
Funded through a grant from leading telecommunications
company Vodacom Tanzania, Pink Ribbon Red
Ribbon’s nonprofit partners and the national Ministry of
Health and Social Welfare have employed 11 people to
arrange transportation for women in three regions of
Tanzania.
In July, the program helped its first patients as five
women with cervical cancer from the Iringa region were
transported to the Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI)
in Dar es Salaam for radiation treatment.

4. Quality Care
For many women living in rural areas, this
program provides access to quality cancer
care for the first time.
Tanzania’s growing wireless networks also
have played a part by allowing workers to
instantly buy women’s bus tickets through
cell phones using Vodacom’s mobile money
service.