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FFF and Its Partners support Lagos State Govt COVID-19 E-Learning

In response to the closure of schools in the country occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic, the Lagos state through the ministry of education and state universal basic education board commenced E-Classes to keep students and pupils at home engaged in academic activities. Soon after the program commenced, a careful appraisal of the program indicates the near absence of provisions for the inclusion of, and accessibility for children with disabilities (CWDs). This informed the initiative of the consortium of Festus Fajemilo Foundation, Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities and Daughters of Charity Nigeria to support the state government through the ministry of education and LASUBEB by providing some interventions. Read more……

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Clarissa Harlowe Barton was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She worked as a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, and as a teacher and patent clerk. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home. She had a relationship with John J. Elwell, but never married. …