Today marks 3 years since Ebola entered Nigeria. To commemorate this historic day, DRASA hosted a panel discussion titled Public Health: It Starts With Me in collaboration with Quramo Conferences. Our international partners are in Lagos for 1 week to conduct a scoping visit for our simulation training program. Since their visit coincides with the 3 year anniversary of […]
Today, a new organization called the Global Infectious Diseases Initiative (GIDI) launched in Lagos with a lecture and dinner event. Dr. Yoav Golan, Dr. Folarin Olubowale (Founder GIDI),Dr. Nadine Regis, Ms. Niniola Soleye (DRASA) GIDI’s goals are to: Speakers included Dr. Nadine Regis, a Haitian-American Emergency Medicine physician, who gave an overview of common and uncommon life-threatening infections, […]
Thanks to the Nigerian chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI), we spent today at their ScopePedia workshop learning how to increase our project, program and portfolio management capabilities for improved delivery. DRASA was lucky enough to be selected to participate in a one-day capacity building training for non-profit organizations. PMI Consultant and DRASA’s Program Coordinator […]
Today we visited Obalende, Lagos and engaged female leaders in the community. DRASA in Obalende Why women? Women manage the home, prepare food for their families, and are usually the ones that take care of sick children and husbands. So changing and improving hygiene and sanitation habits in homes and communities starts with them. Also, […]
Our #ItStartsWithMe campaign continued today with a visit to Iponri Estate Senior High School in Surulere, Lagos. We gathered the students on the assembly grounds and spoke to them about the importance of good hygiene and handwashing to stay clean and healthy. The students were very eager to volunteer and in fact, after learning from […]
Today we visited Surulere Senior Secondary School for our #ItStartsWithMe campaign. We spoke with the students about the importance of personal hygiene, why handwashing with soap is important, the critical times to wash hands, and length of time to wash hands. We also got them to participate in some team building activities to show how […]