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  • The dance parties helping cancer-sick kids heal quickly

    Abdulgafar Adebayo

    February 07, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Children Living With Cancer Foundation organizes dance parties for children with cancer, to provide them with a sense of joy, encouragement, and community during times of need. The nonprofit also organizes community events and donations and works with local pharmacies to get patients the medicines they need at subsidized rates. So far, the Foundation has supported 300 childhood cancer patients and their families.

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  • Osun's Bumpy Road To 'Health For All': Successes, Failures And Lessons

    Rasheed Adebiyi Abdulgafar Adebayo

    September 15, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osogbo, Osun

    The Osun Health Insurance Scheme or O'HIS provides affordable healthcare services to residents by compulsorily enrolling residents in the program and deducting a premium from their salary. Since 2018, at least 260,000 citizens have registered for O'HIS and the agency uses Facebook, Twitter and sponsored radio programs to create awareness across the state.

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  • Through a radio program in Osun State, low-income Nigerians are learning business skills

    Rasheed Adebiyi Abdulgafar Adebayo

    August 27, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

    Listeners of the Nigerian radio program KaraKata have access to business education, financial literacy information, and empowerment — as well as crowdsourced seed funding to get their own business off the ground. Listeners call in to make a case for why they should become a beneficiary, and the program has awarded funds to 1,250 people since it began distributing seed money in 2017.

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