Our Story

We are befalling with great stigmatization and countless challenges thrown to us by the Africa environmental syndrome. These syndromes range from poor healthcare service, absurd quality of living, rigid educational system, decayed working conditions and paradelle jobs and many more. Many of these sickle cell patients are been sacrificed to the ages, not as though that was their fate, oh no! Our reality in Africa made it their fate.

Indulge me to let you in a little bit; there is a single mother out there called Ms. Robinson raising two sickle cell patients, a boy and a girl. Ms. Robinson is neck deep in debt due to their hospital bills because there is no sustainable standard governmental healthcare insurance scheme and she has no one to cover her defaults. Her day to day job was not enough to fend their responsibility and let’s not talk about the several pay cheques she had already collected in advance. Some days, she rather kept her sick children at home; give them water to drink and garnished it with prayers during the sickle cell episodes. Less I forget, they take turns when it comes to getting sick and the love of a mother had push her all the way here and even beyond to her early grave.

Lionel was raised by his widowed mother, for some reasons he was in University alone when lightning struck, however, he didn’t have a shelter. He ran out of medications because he needed hand-outs to scale him through his academic pursuit; although he expected financial support from his mother which never came through. He is constantly having an episode as he is only on acetaminophen and water.

Oh yes Vivian, she was happily married with two kids, but not all happy marriage ends up with a happily ever after. She was consistently battered by her husband and every time her body keeps failing her with countless episodes that goes with self-medication. As an orphan who had no one to turn to, her husband took advantage of that and it all ended in the cold comfort arms of death.

Abisola, you are dearly missed, this is a young lady with the photographic memory; she would read and never forget. The downside was that her body kept betraying her in most semester exams in school, her grades went down the hill as time went by. One evening her brother was with her; an episode occurred as usual, although her brother had a birthday party to attend that night but seeing his sister’s strength failing, he did not want to leave her sight; she encouraged him to go because she knew she will be fine as always. After the party, he rushed back home hoping to gist his sister how the party went and found her lifeless; she slept peacefully for the very first time.

Is it Marvis who got to the crossroad of his life? He never knew life would offer him a black rose but yes he took the right path. He accepted an alter called and made plans to get committed with God’s work. Two days later, he had an episode like never before while he was in the arms of his pregnant wife who was comforting him. He was immediately rushed to the hospital but before they got there, he took a bow.

Ms. Jane was raped as a child by her uncle, she had countless of abusive relationship until she met Kelvin. Kelvin made her scars looked like gold. They had a child together, but he couldn’t hold a job for long. He was always fired due to his peculiarity of long episodes that could last up to 12 days. He had suicidal thoughts and was stereotyped, ridiculed and stigmatised at several interviews; still he kept pushing, he lost his nursing baby in the process due to malnutrition, In the journey of grief, he had yet another episode and this time he could not fight back.

They call them sickle cell patients; where they see weakness; we see strength, where they see losers; we see fighters, and therefore we call them “serial survivors”.

We will not fail to reveal to you that there is a golden thread in all these. Madam May, an 88 years old woman in a small community somewhere in Nigeria. She survived countless episodes, yet still waxing strong as the day goes by. A happy great grandmother who never thought that she could still be alive.

Mrs Sue a nurse is happily married with 4 children, Mr Harry has 3 children and a successful business, Melisa is waxing strong in her dream to one day become a president’s wife, Lisa a surgeon glowing in her career and many others hence their stories inspired us and we call them the Serial Survivor. All these successful stories is an example that “you can become a serial survivor if only you stay positive”.

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