We recently delivered another successful breakfast morning for communities. 

In Jan, we held our food and nutrition education event for warriors and their families. We conceptualized the event by providing healthy food bags to warriors. This concept was aimed to break any access barriers to (affordable) healthy food as a result of their economic status.

We taught them about the role of nutrition and food in the management of sickle cell. 

Our vision is to continue to support warriors living in rural and deprived communities in Nigeria to be empowered to live healthy lives.

FTA Sickle Cell Foundation successfully delivered our first outreach event of 2023. 

In Jan, we held our food and nutrition education event for warriors and their families. We conceptualized the event by providing healthy food bags to warriors. This concept was aimed to break any access barriers to (affordable) healthy food as a result of their economic status.

We taught them about the role of nutrition and food in the management of sickle cell. 

Our vision is to continue to support warriors living in rural and deprived communities in Nigeria to be empowered to live healthy lives.

We hosted our breakfast morning in March 2022.

It was a successful event, hosted by a very special guest and our Visitor of the Year ‘Mama V’, a 70 plus year old warrior. She wowed us, the warriors and their mothers. She was able to teach and share all her golden tips of living with sickle cell and being successful at it!
 

We can’t wait to host her again. We will be sharing her story here. Keep an eye out for a ‘special’ on one of Nigeria’s finest and oldest sickle cell warriors. We know that her lessons will stay with the warriors and their parents. Education never stops for us!

We know malaria is significant trigger for sickle cell crisis.  As part of our ongoing support for our children and young people, we are committed to educating them, providing aid for them and empowering them to live healthy lives! This is one program we successfully delivered for warriors in Abuja, Nigeria summer of 2021.

We provided malaria prevention essentials and a food bank. The food bank was provided as a way to teach warriors about nutrition and the importance of eating healthy with sickle cell! Thanks to all who supported us to do this!

We held our pain management at home educational event in Nov 2021 with over 50 attendees, children, young people and their parents. We educated warriors on the importance of understanding triggers to sickle cell crisis, understanding pain score, and using heat therapy as form of soothing and managing low level pain.

We provided home remedy bags to all warriors comprising of heat pads, pain massage oils, hot water bottles, blankets, notebooks, supplements, soothing teas and treats for the younger kids.