Our Response to COVID-19: Keeping Everyone Showing Up, but Masked Up
As an organization focused on livelihood and commitment to supporting Nigerian communities in emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mask Up 2 Show Up project was birthed to address the increasing spread. The project aimed to create community awareness of the importance of consistent and appropriate wearing of face masks, social distance and safe […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Mayowa Adegbile
Mayowa Adegbile is the founder of the Ashake Foundation. This is her #COVIDPositiveStory; I work with a lot of women who depend on daily sales and with the lockdown, we started receiving calls that there was no hope for food and hunger was inevitable. These women in most cases are the breadwinners of their home […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Aminat Ibrahim
Meet Aminat Modupe Ibrahim, a Kectil Colleague, and the team lead at MayMed Innova. This is her #COVIDPositiveStory. At the onset of the coronavirus, I was informing people who follow me on social media on the virus and how they can stay safe. When the first index person was reported in Nigeria, I knew that […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Adeyemo Oluwabusola
Adeyemo Oluwabusola is the Executive Director of Gertrude Olowo Empowerment Initiative. This is her #COVIDPositiveStory. Before the lockdown began, we were inspired by the need to support teenage girls between ages 11 – 19 years, advocating for a safe space for them with all-round education and mental awareness. Our major objective is to equip them […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Elizabeth Aladelokun
Meet Elizabeth Aladelokun, Project Lead of Food Drive Project, an alumnus of the United Nation Millennium fellowship. This is her #COVIDPositiveStory: The name of our COVID-19 Impact project is the Food Drive, a standalone project that was inspired by a conversation with a mentor around the difficulty of accessing food for the vulnerable family […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Godwin Takor
Godwin Takor is the Founder of Impact Foundation and this is his #COVIDPositiveStory. Since the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in Nigeria, Godwin began to imagine what will be the fate of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in the camps. A lot of these people are victims of the Boko Haram insurgency in the […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Folasade Bamisaye
Folasade Bamisaye is the founder and Senior Operating Officer of My Period Kit – A Social Enterprise Organization offering critical menstrual health services and products to the last-mile rural women and girls. This is her #COVIDPositiveStory; Our #COVID19 project is a project within our core project and it started as a direct response to […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Kenneth Okonkwo
Kenneth Okonkwo is a Sustainable Agriculture Practice expert by Training and the Founder of IrriTech Nigeria Limited. This is his #COVIDPositiveStory. The Eko Covid-19 Prevention Hygiene Project was initiated to help reduce the spread and transmission of COVID-19 in Lagos State, being the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria. This was done through the house […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Patricia Okolo
Patrica Okolo is Operations Manager of Strategy and Innovation for Development Initiative (SI4DEV). This is her #COVIDPositiveStory. The current shut down of activities in most states in the country, with citizens compelled to stay at home, comes with unintended consequences due to lack of basic services like water and electricity, and no provisions of funds, […]
#COVIDPositiveStories – Doyinsola Ogunye
Doyinsola Ogunye is the founder of Mental and Environmental Development Initiative for Children. This is her #COVIDPositiveStory. The project is called the #COVID19 Water Project. The project started when I started to listen to the Covid-19 guidelines, the part that said wash your hands for 20 seconds under running water got to me. I knew […]
