On Tuesday, 11th October 2022, Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh received the Posthumous National Honor of Officer of the Order of Niger (OON). This was conferred by His Excellency, President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari. Dr. Adadevoh has now joined other prominent awardees found worthy of the various prestigious national honors conferred […]
“Drugs should be used in the right doses, for the right diagnoses, on the right patient, and at the right time. If we don’t obey these rights, potions can very quickly become poisons. It’s a very thin line.” –Dr. Asekhame Sonny Isemede Medications play a critical role in achieving the ultimate goal of healthcare: to prevent […]
“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. …When the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say ‘We have done this ourselves.” –Lao Tzu Imagine if it was possible for all travelers moving from one country to another to […]
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” –Frederick Douglass Since 2018, we have engaged with young school children through our Health and Hygiene Clubs, where they learn healthy habits that stop the spread of diseases and promote these habits to those around them. In this piece, we spotlight one of […]
Arts Meets Health, As DRASA Ambassadors Create Supergerms in Comic Illustrations “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle As part of our learning methods for the Health and Hygiene Clubs we established in 30 secondary schools in Osun and Lagos States, 900 DRASA Ambassadors— i.e, student […]
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. –Edward Everett Hale For us at DRASA, the first half of the year provides us an opportunity to review how close we are to our goals, while paying attention to how far we have come. While we keep working to bring new ideas […]