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By partnering with the Gail Sickle Initiative to help those suffering from sickle cell anemia, Heritage Bank Plc has increased the level of its support in the area of corporate social responsibility.
According to Osepiribo Ben-Willie, executive director of Heritage Bank, the relationship with the non-profit Gail Sickle Initiative is intended to lessen the burden of people with sickle cell disease in Nigeria and to ensure that all afflicted people have pain-free, normal lives.
She said it has become a worry for Heritage Bank to help lessen the load because 150 000 children are born with the illness while over 40 million Nigerians are healthy carriers of the sickle cell gene.
According to her, this is by far the most common form of sickle cell disease in the world, particularly in Nigeria, and the majority of these children pass away in infancy due to a lack of access to an early diagnosis and appropriate care.
“In Heritage Bank, health is a priority, that is why we want to continue partnering and supporting the NGO, Gail Sickle Initiative on welfare support, early detection and improved treatment and proper care,” she said.
Ben-Willie further affirmed that said that Heritage Bank in partnership with Gail Sickle Initiative is synergizing to create significant awareness and support for individuals affected by the disease.
Speaking at an event, the convener of Gail Sickle Initiative, Oluwafemi Ajayi, disclosed that with the support from Heritage Bank, the NGO has gone beyond its support to her members whom she refers to as winning warriors, to supporting and donating to people living with the sickle cell disease across the country.
According to her, as an organisation that supplies supplements to winning warriors, the Gail Sickle Initiative partnered with Heritage Bank and with the funds provided went beyond the organisations’ members and reached out to other winning warriors who have no parental support and to those in various hospital to give them supplements and offset the bill of some who were unable to pay their bills.
Ajayi further stated that Sickle Cell disorder poses various challenges to the carriers like the health challenge, stigmatisation, economic challenge amongst others.
According to her, the Gail Sickle Initiative focused on how to cover every aspect of these challenges by birthing the Sicklepreneur, this aids the warriors to be trained so they can acquire relevant skills and equip themselves to be independent. Therefore, apart from trying to eradicate the sickle cell disease, they ensure that the stigmatisation label on the warriors does not result in depression for them.
She encouraged other corporate organisations to learn from Heritage Bank’s sterling example to the winning warriors by supporting the initiative and further contributed towards the back-to-school project with relevant items donated.
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