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Category: #ItStartsWithMe

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Global Handwashing Day 2022: Educating 1566 Students, 84 Teachers, and 60 Traders

2022-10-17#ItStartsWithMe, Community Outreach, DRASA Ambassadors, Newsdrasa_admin

“Life and death are in our hands.” “Clean hands save lives.” Our hands play vital roles in our daily lives. From touching, grasping, holding, and working, they help us spread germs–which are almost everywhere–from person to person. However, this risk of our hands carrying and spreading germs can be managed through proper handwashing procedures. Global…

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Celebrating World Antibiotic Awareness Week

2018-11-14#ItStartsWithMe, Antimicrobial Resistance, News, Youth Engagementdrasa_admin

This year, to celebrate World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW), we taught our Youth Ambassadors about antibiotics – what they are, proper use, misuse and abuse, as well as the risk of antibiotic resistance. Who are our Youth Ambassadors? These are members of the DRASA Health and Hygiene Clubs which we have established and are managing…

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World Savings Day: “Dear Students: Save Your Money, Save Your Life”

2018-10-31#ItStartsWithMe, News, Youth Engagementdrasa_admin

Today Union Bank and DRASA worked together to reach more than 3,200 students in 30 states across the country! Our collaboration was in celebration of World Savings Day – a global event promoting the value of saving – and the theme of our campaign was Save Your Money, Save Your Life. Throughout the day in…

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Providing More Than 800 Children with Food & Medical Services for Christmas: Heart2Feed

2017-12-23#ItStartsWithMe, Community Outreach, Newsdrasa_admin

Today we participated in the Heart2Feed food and medical drive for more than 800 children in the Ajegunle slum. In the spirit of Christmas we collaborated with Otres Restaurant, Dreams from the Slum, and Citadel Opticals to bring some cheer to the community. Our partners provided food and drinks and free eye screenings, and we…

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#ItStartsWithMe Secondary School Health and Hygiene Clubs

2017-09-27#ItStartsWithMe, Antimicrobial Resistance, DRASA Ambassadors, News, Youth Engagementdrasa_admin

We’ve just launched #ItStartsWithMe Health and Hygiene Clubs for the 2017-2018 school year. 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 staff. Now we’re taking it to the next…

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Engaging Female Community Leaders in Obalende

2017-06-10#ItStartsWithMe, Community Outreach, Newsdrasa_admin

Today we visited Obalende, Lagos and engaged female leaders in the community. 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, engaging female leaders…

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Iponri Estate Senior High School: #ItStartsWithMe School Visit

2017-05-17#ItStartsWithMe, News, Youth Engagementdrasa_admin

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…

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#ItStartsWithMe School Outreach

2016-12-09#ItStartsWithMe, News, Youth Engagementdrasa_admin

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…

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Iganmu Senior High School: #ItStartsWithMe School Visit

2016-12-08#ItStartsWithMe, News, Youth Engagementdrasa_admin

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. 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 the school. Here’s a…

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State Senior Grammar School: #ItStartsWithMe School Visit

2016-06-29#ItStartsWithMe, News, Youth Engagementdrasa_admin

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….

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DRASA Health Trust is a public health organization working with government, local and international partners, community leaders, students, and health workers to promote adequate sanitation and hygiene, reduce and prevent the spread of infectious diseases, and strengthen Nigeria’s health security and emergency preparedness.

DRASA was established in memory of the late Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh who identified and contained Nigeria's first Ebola patient, preventing a major outbreak, but lost her life in the process.

Recent Posts

  • Five Nigerian Women in Health Security: Why We Love Them 08/03/2023
  • Have you Heard About the Diphtheria Outbreak in Nigeria? 22/02/2023
  • Receiving the Inaugural Africa CDC – DRASA Continental Award for Emergency Health Workers in Africa 15/12/2022
  • Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together: Celebrating World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 26/11/2022
  • Global Handwashing Day 2022: Educating 1566 Students, 84 Teachers, and 60 Traders 17/10/2022

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