The Sickle Cell Advocacy and Management Initiative (SAMI) is a non-governmental organization founded by Ms. Toyin Adesola who has been through traumatic challenges of living with the sickle cell (SC) disorder all her life and she deemed it necessary to help those who may not be privileged like her to have reasonable medical attention, care, and emotional support. Due to ignorance, many suffer extreme pain, sorrow, low self-esteem and stigmatization and many lack proper and affordable medical care in a disorder that is financially and socially draining.
When an uneducated family has to take care of not one but sometimes up to five children with the sickle cell disorder, they can hardly afford basic needs let alone medical needs, so there is a need for a proper support system.For a country that has 1 in 4 people carrying the sickle cell trait especially the youth population, there is an urgent need to provide adequate interpersonal and affordable basic management health care and empowerment programs to people with the disorder as well as educating people about the importance of knowing their genotype, so they can make informed choices.
SAMI, whose, vision to improve the lives of individuals living with the sickle cell disorder by educating, advocating, creating awareness and providing support. Join us to empower and improve the lives of people, especially those living with the disorder through strategic partnership via education, empowering, creating awareness, and providing support. As a volunteer, you can share your talent and energy by picking any of the following teams: Event planners/coordinators, presenters, doctors, nurses, pharmacist, psychologist, data entry specialist and more.
This is an amazing opportunity to impact positively on the lives of individuals living with Sickle Cell Anaemia. Click here to apply.