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Sickle Cell Screening reaches 2,215 children and increasing! Read now

The UK and Nigeria teams were able to exchange information via their usual typed skype meeting.

John Dada, although unable to attend personally this week, emailed us with the following exciting update about Fantsuam Foundation’s real contribution in combating Sickle Cell Disease. As part of the Cohort Pilot Study he gave us the following latest statistics: So far he has successfully managed to screen 2,215 children for Sickle Cell disease. In addition to those screened on the UN Sickle Cell Awareness Day in June and those screened in Gwantu, an additional 630 children have recently been screened in Manchok and the team plans to be in Attakar on Thursday 15th and in Kagoro today. John’s target is to screen 6,000 children. Photos of these various screenings are hopefully ‘in the pipeline’ to the UK.

Another Wonderful Wednesday! Read now

John and Pam at Attachab
Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community

Another week passes and I thought that Pam and I had had a busy one, but our activity paled into insignificance compared with the enormous strides forward that our sister organisation Fantsuam Foundation had achieved!

At this week's online skype meeting between the UK and Nigeria in our hourly update we learned:

* The full extent of FF's plans to mark the UN's global awareness day on June 19th. In fact FF have embraced this concept so admirably that they have planned two day's of activities. Their plans being so impressive that they warrant a blog of their own!

Good news really does come in threes! Read now

There was a lively and informative skype (typed) chat this week at the Wednesday's weekly online meeting between the Nigerian and the UK Team.

There was indeed triple good news this week

JAWS - an update with photos! Read now

We have just been alerted by Cicely,(VSO at Fantsuam Foundation) that she has blogged about JAWS. Please click here for fab photos and to read Cicely's great blogging.

Google Alert and Sectarian Violence Read now

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

I follow our sister organisation Fantsuam Foundation and have just read an alert directing me to an article by John Dada in APC News 

The article is GEM in Hard Times: Sectarian violence in Nigeria can be beaten

(GEM is Gender Evaluation Methodology )

Education In Rural Nigeria Read now

During the course of Wednesday's UK-Nigeria meeting, we found ourselves contemplating the realities of education at Fantsuam. For that was among the traditionally vast range of topics covered in a session which also spanned everything from Sickle Cell Disease to Mozzi-Mort!

It was interesting to learn that students at Fantsuam are being introduced to Twitter on the diploma course.

Sickle Cell Disease - Global awareness day. Read now

Sickle Cell Awareness day was created by the United Nations to recognise Sickle Cell Disease as a global health crisis.

Development Partners in Higher Education Read now

On Tuesday, Pam alerted the Dadamac UK and Nigeria Teams (plus a few of her contacts in Higher Education) that:

Sickle Cell Disease in Rural Nigeria Read now

I was very interested to learn from John that he had attended a workshop looking at the issue of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in resource-poor environments.

Last Wednesday Meeting of 2009! Read now

Yesterday saw the last scheduled meeting of 2009 between the UK-Nigeria team.

The main item on the agenda was to thank everyone for their continued commitment to these meetings and for all their hard work during the past year.

We also wanted to reflect on the successes we had shared and explore together any aspects of our collaboration which might be improved upon in the coming year. We also hoped to clarify what should be our first objectives togeher for the New Year.