Sickle Cell Advocacy and Mgt Initiative

Sickle Cell Advocacy and Management Initiative nongovernmental organization with a mission to empower and improve the lives of people with sickle cell disorder- to live healthy, positive and impactful lives by educating, creating awareness, and most importantly providing care and support. We are a non-profit organization set up to give support and succour to people living with Sickle Cell especially the underprivileged. Since its inception in 2008, and with the help of organisations and individuals, Sickle Cell Advocacy has touched the lives of people sickle cell around the country through the monthly XTRA CARE Medical Outreaches where we provide free medical consultation and free drugs to underprivileged children and adults with sickle cell thereby assisting in managing their health. We also organize a special event called “Touch a Cell Dance-a-Thon” where we go to schools and we try to educate the students about their genotype and sickle cell in general. Sickle Cell Advocacy’s work also includes providing social support to people living with sickle cell. Our response to social stigmatization is to step in by providing support through a number of ways like paying for school fees, house rents, amongst others for people Sickle Cell. We have also empowered people with Sickle Cell through vocational training and provision of equipment to enable them to start their own businesses.