“Disease and disasters come and go like rain, but health is like the sun that illuminates the entire village."
- African Proverb

As Black women, we are often too busy to take care of our health as we deal with the pressures of work and family. We often don’t take basic steps to protect our health. We are so busy paying bills, cooking dinner, planning church functions, helping with homework - we might find ourselves saying, “If I am not having problems, then I don’t need to think about my health.”

“What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
-1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV)

You are a wife, sister, mother, and daughter. You take care of everyone before you take care of yourself. Things just don’t get done if your hand isn’t in it! Have you ever stopped to think what would happen to your family if you weren’t there? You can’t be there for your family if you are sick or having problems with your health. Continued good health allows you to keeping doing the things that are important to you.

“Before healing others, heal yourself”
-African Proverb y
(Gambia) Proverb

Black women from Harriet Tubman to Rosa Parks have taken the lead in getting our people through difficult times. Our faith has gotten us through dark times from slavery, to Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era. Our faith in God sustains us in our hectic everyday lives. We know and trust in God to provide for us. We believe that God can heal all wounds and cure all disease.

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” John 1:2 (KJV)

We may say to ourselves “If God gives me cancer there is nothing that I can do about it.” But, He has given knowledge and tools to mankind. He has called nurses and doctors to minister to the sick. He has given His children knowledge, learning and medicine to guard our health.

“For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge” 2 Peter 1:5 (KJV)

We are providing this website so you have the information you need to protect yourself.
Use this knowledge and act on it. Get screened for cervical cancer. Tell your mother, your sister, your aunt and your girlfriends to get screened for cervical cancer.

“Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse”.
-African Proverb