[email protected]
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Instagram
YouTube
Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (DRASA) Health Trust
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Mission
    • Vision
    • Biography
    • People
      • Board of Advisors
      • Board of Trustees
      • Executive Team
    • Annual Reports
  • Our Work
    • Projects
      • #ItStartsWithMe Program
      • Simulation Training
      • Infection Control and Hygiene
      • Infectious Disease Diagnostics
  • News & Blog
  • Get Involved
  • Contact Us
  • Donate

Engaging Female Community Leaders in Obalende

Home #ItStartsWithMe Engaging Female Community Leaders in Obalende

#ItStartsWithMe10/06/2017drasa_admin

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

DRASA in Obalende

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, engaging female leaders in the community ensured that our teachings and messages would have greater impact as these women are well respected and influential.

Why Obalende?

Apart from being a crowded and highly congested area (at great risk of outbreaks), the first Ebola patient in Nigeria – the man who landed in Lagos from Monrovia, Liberia – ended up in a hospital in Obalende where Dr. Adadevoh worked. So people in this community are very aware of infectious diseases and how scary outbreaks can be. However, since there’s no Ebola in Nigeria right now, for the most part, they’ve stopped doing the important health and hygiene behaviors that can reduce the spread of diseases (handwashing, keeping your home clean, etc). Since there’s a meningitis outbreak in Nigeria right now, we came to remind them.

We started by finding out what they knew about meningitis and the outbreak. Turns out there were quite a few misconceptions from some of them thinking sneezing was a symptom to others believing that heat caused meningitis.

After sharing the correct information with them, we played a few games including hygiene trivia and a contest to see which team could wash their hands properly. We gave out DRASA t-shirts as prizes to the winners.

Women leaders in Obalende

Women leaders in Obalende

The women enjoyed our discussion so much they even brought some of their children out to join us so we included them in the session!

 

And thanks to our partners at Kleanmate, we were able to provide each woman with soap so they can start practicing what we preached.

 

Women leaders in Obalende with their Kleanmate soap

Women leaders in Obalende with their Kleanmate soap

Click below to view more pictures from the visit.


 

Setting up for Obalende outreachSetting up for Obalende outreachSetting up for Obalende outreachSetting up for Obalende outreachSetting up for Obalende outreachSetting up for Obalende outreachDRASA TeamDRASA TeamRemember, clean hands save livesRemember, clean hands save livesSetting up for Obalende outreachSetting up for Obalende outreachDRASA TeamDRASA TeamFemale leaders in ObalendeFemale leaders in ObalendeDemonstrating how diseases spreadDemonstrating how diseases spreadDemonstrating how diseases spreadDemonstrating how diseases spreadClean hands save lives!Clean hands save lives!
Share on Facebook Share
Share on TwitterTweet
Share on Google Plus Share
Share on LinkedIn Share
Send email Mail

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Posts

  • When a Hospital Wants to get Prepared, We’re There to Help
  • Greater Scholars: Celebrating Heroes and Inspiring Youth
  • What Would Happen If Yellow Fever Hit Lagos? We Spent A Week Finding Out
  • These Songs from Our Ambassadors Will Make You Want To Dance: DRASA’s Got Talent 2018
  • Congratulating Newly Trained Practitioners of Basic Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)

Categories

  • #IDFridays
  • #ItStartsWithMe
  • News
  • Press Release

Archives

  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015

About Us

DRASA protects society from infectious diseases and public health threats through education and training for outbreak preparedness and prevention, resource development and distribution, and advocacy for strong public health policies.

DRASA was established in memory of Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the doctor who correctly diagnosed and contained the first case of Ebola in Nigeria, preventing a major outbreak in Africa’s most populous nation.

Recent Posts

  • When a Hospital Wants to get Prepared, We’re There to Help 28/03/2018
  • Greater Scholars: Celebrating Heroes and Inspiring Youth 22/03/2018
  • What Would Happen If Yellow Fever Hit Lagos? We Spent A Week Finding Out 16/03/2018
  • These Songs from Our Ambassadors Will Make You Want To Dance: DRASA’s Got Talent 2018 16/03/2018
  • Congratulating Newly Trained Practitioners of Basic Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) 10/03/2018

Contacts

23 Agodogba Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
+234 (0) 803 613 1484
[email protected]
Email
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Instagram
YouTube
Website Design By RDM
© 2018 Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh Health Trust - All Rights Reserved.