The students at Obele Community Senior High School have a lot of energy! We visited them today for our #ItStartsWithMe campaign and we must say, they have some of the best singers we’ve seen yet. The students were very involved with…
Despite today’s rainy weather, we made it to Stadium Senior High School in Surulere, Lagos for another #ItStartsWithMe campaign school visit. Instead of meeting with the entire school in an assembly, we held a small session with class prefects and senior students…
Today we attended the first inaugural Young Reader’s Literary Morning which brought together 200 primary school students from all over Lagos. The event was hosted by Mango Books/Quramo Publishing Limited and the focus was to promote reading and writing among…
This bacteria produces a poison that can spread around the body Name Diphtheria Transmission An infection caused by the Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria People become infected through direct physical contact with an infected person: Inhaling respiratory droplets from the infected person coughing or…
First discovered in Nigeria, the symptoms of this disease can seem similar to Ebola Name Lassa fever Transmission An infectious haemorrhagic virus which lives in the Mastomys or multimammate rat People become infected mostly through direct contact with infected rats or through food…
This disease can make your limbs look like the legs of an elephant Name Lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis Transmission An infectious tropical disease caused by three types of filarial parasites (thread-like roundworms) These microscopic worms live in the lymphatic…