The Need
Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent health concerns among Filipino women — yet many remain unaware of how to detect it early, or even that early detection can save lives. For young women in particular, access to accurate, age-appropriate information on breast self-examination is limited, leaving a critical window for prevention and early action largely unaddressed. Without community-based health education that reaches women where they are, this gap will continue to cost lives that timely awareness could have saved.
The Intervention
LIKAYAN integrates health education, community champion development, and grassroots outreach. It equips Community Champions with the knowledge and confidence to teach Breast Self-Examination correctly and accessibly through a comprehensive training program, produces a learning toolkit and information materials to ensure accurate health information travels beyond the training room, and deploys Champions door to door — bringing BSE education directly into homes and communities where it might never have reached otherwise.
Country:
Phillippines
SDGs
Key Priority Area/s:
Health & Sanitation
Skills, Education & Entrepreneurship
Donor:
Pfizer Foundation
Partners:
Municipality of Balayan, Batangas
194
Community Champions Trained
Goals Achieved:
3,220
Women reached during roll-out trainings
Goals Achieved:
2,010
Households reached
Goals Achieved:
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