Youth Engagement
#ItStartsWithMe Secondary School Health and Hygiene Clubs
We’ve just launched #ItStartsWithMe Health and Hygiene Clubs for the 2017-2018 school year. One of our #ItStartsWithMe Health and Hygiene Clubs What are the Health and Hygiene Clubs about? Since 2016, DRASA’s been working with schools in Lagos state to conduct a handwashing and hygiene program and distribute health and hygiene products to students and […]
Empowering Nigerian Youth Through Entrepreneurship
Today we attended the Gamaliel and Susan (GAMSU) Onosode Foundation’s 4th Annual Lecture. The theme was Empowering the Nigerian Youth Through Entrepreneurship, something we strongly believe in and are doing with our Hack The Germs Competition. Also, GAMSU supports one of our schools, Obele Community High School. Gamaliel and Susan (GAMSU) Onosode Foundation’s 4th Annual Lecture Panelists The keynote speaker […]
#ItStartsWithMe School Outreach
Our #ItStartsWithMe Campaign continues! So far we’ve distributed 72,000 bars of soap, 900 pieces of handwash, 6,000 tubes of lotion, and 12,000 pieces of roll on deodorant and reached more than 9,000 students in Lagos to promote clean hands and encourage good hygiene to help prevent the spread of disease. Unilever Nigeria and Kleanmate donated the products to DRASA in support of our #ItStartsWithMe Campaign. At each […]
Iganmu Senior High School: #ItStartsWithMe School Visit
Today we did our final #ItStartsWithMe school visit before school ends for the year. We visited Iganmu Senior High School in Mile 2 (Amuwo-Odofin), Lagos. Welcome to Iganmu Senior High School There were more than 900 students at the school (and it wasn’t at full capacity) so we spoke to the students from the 1st floor of […]
Celebrating Global Handwashing Day 2016
Today, October 15th is Global Handwashing Day! To celebrate, we partnered with Ikeja Electric and Kleanmate to visit 6 schools and had more than 1,100 students all over Lagos state washing their hands at the same time. As usual, our goal was to use our #ItStartsWithMe campaign to educate students on the importance of handwashing as an […]
State Senior Grammar School: #ItStartsWithMe School Visit
Today we did our final #ItStartsWithMe school visit before school ends across Lagos state for summer holidays. It was a very special visit because we went to State Senior Grammar School in Surulere, a school for hearing impaired students. To help us communicate with the students, a teacher used sign language to translate our talk. This helped […]
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