MAKNA
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| Founded | 10 November 1994 |
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| Founder | Dato’ Mohd Farid Ariffin |
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Nonprofit organization Social enterprise |
| Focus | Cancer |
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Area served
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Global |
| Method | Financial Assistance, Treatment, Research, Awareness, Consultancy, Volunteerism |
| Slogan | The Human Spirit can Achieve What it is Set Out to do When the Will is Able |
| Website | makna.org.my |
MAKNA (Majlis Kanser Nasional) or National Cancer Council Malaysia is a not-for-profit social enterprise mainly tasked to pool and utilize every effort, expertise and welfare from every faction of society to fight cancer and to reduce the pain, suffering and morbidity that the cancer patients often experience. It aims to provide curative care, preventive care, cancer research and support services to cancer patients and their families, high-risk groups and the general public in Malaysia and throughout the world.
MAKNA registered under the Register of Societies Malaysia on 10 November 1994 and officially launched on 30 March 1995. It was founded by Dato’ Mohd Farid Ariffin in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The organization is named after the Malay language word for 'meaning' (makna) and its slogan is A Meaning to Life.
Organisation of consistent cancer to those who are implemented in raising the quality of life, MAKNA for the first time in 2011 . MAKNA has been diversified to support and conduct research in basic sciences and clinical research on cancer and a healthy lifestyle . Makna is registered under the Registrar of Societies Malaysia on 10 November 1994 dan dilancarkan secara rasmi pada 30 March 1995 . MAKNA Bursary Program, which is a monetary assistance project providing financially challenged cancer types and the patients ' background . MAKNA has been diversified to support the nature of different cancer information effectively to all levels of society . Over the years, the type of services offered by MAKNA Bursary Program, which could lead to innovative treatment cost .
Dato' Mohd Farid Arifin, its founder, has vast management, organisational and entrepreneurship experience, having served as a teacher, lecturer and lawyer and later as Deputy Finance Minister (1987 – 1989) and Deputy Health Minister (1989 – 1995).
MAKNA was set up from his own family experience, and today it is a home-grown organisation fully focused on cancer.
His teenage son Farul Rafiq was 17 when diagnosed with leukemia in 1992. Farul was flown to London, England (Hammersmith Hospital) for treatment. There, he underwent a regimented treatment which included an autologous bone marrow transplant, which was not yet available in Malaysia. A few years into battling the diseases, he was finally certified cancer-free.
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