CANSA Active - Feel Good Fun

Our CANSA Active Campaign gives you the opportunity to participate in your favourite sporting activity or race, while raising funds online to support our educational campaigns on lowering cancer risk and our holistic care & support to those affected by cancer.

CANSA Active promotes regular exercise and physical activity which play a major role in leading a healthy balanced lifestyle – aimed at reducing your cancer risk. The lack of regular exercise and physical activity; overweight and obesity; combined with unhealthy dietary and social habits i.e. tanning, smoking and drinking, are all risk factors associated with heightened cancer risk.

CANSA Active advocates regular exercise and physical activity while being #SunSmart, for all South Africans, from pre-school toddlers to great grandparents; the fitness fanatic; serious athletes; group sport; family sport; social joggers; cyclist; runners; walkers and strollers. The motivation being that every bit of exercise contributes to health. Read more.

CANSA Active serves as reminder to reduce your cancer risk though exercise, physical activity and protection from the sun’s harmful rays.

CANSA is committed to connecting people facing cancer with information, day-to-day help as well as emotional support they need in the communities where they live.

Our aim is to ensure that cancer Survivors and their loved ones don’t have to face cancer alone; we’re here to support them through every step of their cancer journey.

*Your support helps us to continue the fight against cancer in South Africa and brings us closer to the challenge of a cancer-free society within our generation. Let this become our legacy to our children and generations to come.

* The responsibility rests with patients to contact CANSA for assistance. CANSA is not informed of any diagnoses / of patients being treated at medical centres. Family need to obtain permission from patients, before CANSA may contact them. Read more…

CANSA uses third party service providers to enable some fundraising activities. These third parties will collect personal information on CANSA’s behalf. CANSA complies to POPIA and we will not provide your personal information to anyone else unless you provide consent or one of the following exceptions applies: You would reasonably expect us to use the information for that purpose;The information is used only for historical, statistical or research purposes and is not published in an identifiable form.

Read more about our Privacy Policy and our Manual of Promotion to Access of Information Act (PAIA)

Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) number – Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA): 130001397

Non Profit Organisation Registration number – Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA): 000-524 NPO

More information: https://cansa-active.org.za/