The Global Action Network For Sickle Cell and Other Inherited Blood Diseases (GANSID) holds its inaugural congress virtually from October 20-21, 2023. With the theme, There’s Power In the Collective, the gathering brings together stakeholders in the Hereditary Blood Disorders (HBDs) Community to identify opportunities for collective actions to improve outcomes for people impacted by…
“I am so thankful that I had the opportunity to meet with Lanre – Founder of the Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario – when I was first elected, to learn more about how much of an impact this disease causes for so many people in our communities,” said Khanjin.
It’s been a season of honours for a couple of years for frontline Canadian-Nigerian SCD advocate, Lanre Tunji-Ajayi. In a letter dated June 29, 2020, signed by Her Excellency, the Rt Hon Julie Payette, Governor-General of Canada, Mrs. Tunji-Ajayi was nominated for a Meritorious Service Medal for her advocacy work in the area of health.…
Canadian-Nigerian Lanre Tunji-Ajayi Elected Interim President … Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 2020, An inaugural Face-to-Face meeting of the Global SCD Alliance (#globalSCD) took place in Amsterdam with delegates attending from as far afield as Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the United States. Sickle Cell Disorder is the world’s best-known genetic health condition with no racial or geographical…
Season of Honours for Canada’s #1 SCD Activist It all began with trying to immortalize a younger brother and a fallen SCD hero when Lanre Tunji-Ajayi established the Seed Of Life Philanthropic Organization, SOLPO, which later morphed into the Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario (SCAGO). Mrs. Tunji-Ajayi poured all her energy into her project,…
