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…
Surulere Senior Secondary School: #ItStartsWithMe School Visit
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…
Ebola is Back in DRC: May 2017
There’s an Ebola outbreak in Kinshasa, DRC which is 2,997km or a short 2hr 50mins flight to Lagos, Nigeria. So far 4 people have died. When Nigeria experienced Ebola in 2014, the source was a man who traveled by plane into Nigeria from Liberia. Moral of the story is: Diseases don’t respect borders. They can…