By Afam Onyema | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
As the coronavirus pandemic took fatal hold in the country, GEANCO has provided local health workers, traditional birth attendants (TBAs), and our partner hospitals with much-needed PPE. We also trained them on COVID-19 precautionary measures using the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. From March - June, we donated over 50,000 gloves, face masks, sanitizer, disinfectant, soap and hand-wash buckets to these heroic frontline healthcare workers. We plan to donate more as funding allows this fall and winter.
We provided critical support to Nigerian schoolchildren quarantined in their villages with no means of mental stimulation and engagement – no laptops, no smartphones, no physical books. We have provided 240 tablets preloaded with educational software and hundreds of West African books to Nigerian youth all over the country. These tablets allowed our partner schools to initiate successful remote learning programs, ensuring these students won’t be hindered in their continued educational progress and advancement.
We were proud to partner with Yahoo! to present STOR14S, a children’s fiction podcast series supporting our coronavirus initiatives. Listen to stories read by acclaimed actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, David Oyelowo, Zoe Saldana, Jeff Daniels, Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and more.
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