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Dangote Foundation plans campaign against preventable diseases

By Editor
19 October 2015   |   12:35 am
WORKING on records that an estimated 124,000 children under the age of four years dying annually due to poor sanitation, the Dangote Foundation at the weekend promised to increase its advocacy campaign against preventable diseases in the country.
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WORKING on records that an estimated 124,000 children under the age of four years dying annually due to poor sanitation, the Dangote Foundation at the weekend promised to increase its advocacy campaign against preventable diseases in the country.

The Chief executive Officer of the Foundation, Mrs. Zuoera Youssoufou, gave this assurance in a message she sent to the Community Staff School, venue of the demonstration of the United Nation’s Global Hand Washing Day observed in Abuja in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and other organisations like UNICEF and Water Aids.

She said the Foundation was worried that Nigeria is still contributing so much to the number of children deaths recorded globally due to poor sanitation and described the situation as unacceptable.

Youssoufou stated that the Foundation had already planned to increase her advocacy and intervention in preventable deaths caused by preventable diseases such as poor sanitation, hunger and malnutrition, diarrhoea, cholera and dysentery.

The Foundation boss explained that it was in order to prevent these avoidable deaths that the United Nations set aside a day to mark the Hand washing Day to demonstrate and encourage children on the need to always wash their hands and maintain good sanitation so as to stay healthy.

She said a situation where the nation is losing her children to preventable deaths would not augur well for the development of the country in future because the rank of the children on whose shoulder the task of the development lie would have been depleted.

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