Queen Of Culture And Tourism Benue State, Miss Mimi Pine Partners NAFDAC To Increase Awareness On Mobile Authentication Service And Zero Tolerance To Non Regulated Products.[PICTURES]

The public enlightenment campaign which was carried out by the Queen of Culture and Tourism Benue State, Miss Mimi Pine and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on its activities with focus on Mobile Authentication Service (MAS)which is Scratch and Text Messaging to detecting counterfeit drugs/ products from original drugs, foods & beverages. It also centered on the importance of regular hand washing and healthy living.Continue to see more

The project

Childhood they say ''is the best time for children to learn since whatever they learn'' is likely to be applied in the rest of their lives which was why the Queen saw the need to take the public enlightenment campaign to school children because after the family, schools are the most important places of learning for children.
The ultimate aim of the campaign was to stimulate change and provide guidance to all those involved in ensuring their rights to safe medicines, promote hygiene and good health.

NAFDAC MAS Club was set up in all schools to get pupils and students fully committed where they will serve as NAFDAC Ambassadors. A SET OF POSTERS on mobile authentication and a zero tolerance to non regulated products was developed and distributed among schools visited and hospitals, healthcare centers and market squares of each local Government visited to help spread the message. WASHING HAND CENTER MATERIALS were provided to be placed at strategic places in the schools as a strategy to reinforce the practice of frequent hand washing.
BILL BOARDS were also made for the local government areas visited in order to increase the awareness of the use of Mobile Authentication Service and a Zero Tolerance to Non Regulated Products.

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Two secondary schools and one primary school each were selected across the nine local government areas visited between the 7th - 15th October 2015.

Below are the local governments and schools visited;

1:Makurdi Local Government Area;
Air force secondary school
Government Model Secondary School
Al Ishard Learning Center Wadata
Temple Gate Academy

2: Gwer-West Local Government Area;
N.K.S.T Nursery and Primary School, Naka.
Aye-Zugu Community Secondary School, Naka.
Mount La’ Salle College Naka.

3: Katsina-Ala Local Government Area;
St. Gerald Secondary School katsina-ala.
Government College katsina ala.
L.G.E.A Central Primary School Katsina-Ala.

4:Ushongo Local Government Area;
Government secondary school, Alu.
L.G.E.A, Ge Mbagwa.
Peoples Comprehensive School,Lessel.

5:Gboko Local Government Area;
Glory Nursery and Primary School,Gboko.
Bristow Secondary School, Gboko.
Queen of the Rosary Secondary school,Gboko.

6: Konshisha Local Government Area;
St Joseph Primary School Korinya- City
Government secondary school, Tse-Agberagba.
Shangev-Tiev community secondary school,Awajir.

7:Oju Local Government;
L G E A Primary school.
Igede community secondary school.
Demonstration college.

8:Ohimini Local Government Area;
Ugene city high school Ugene- Okpiko.
St. Lawrence primary school, Idekpa.
UBE Junior Secondary school,Idekpa.

9: Otukpo Local Government Area;
St Francis Nursery and Primary School, Otukpo.
St Ann’s Secondary School, Otukpo.
Government Model College, Otukpo.

For each primary school visited, tap like buckets, washing hand bowls, hand wash (detergent), towels and hand sanitizers were donated to the school to encourage hand washing while the secondary schools were encouraged and provided with hand sanitisers and posters.

The entire campaign recorded a tremendous success as every school visited was very excited to receive the team, the items and materials donated
and the information which they all regarded was very sensitive and important.
It could recall that, Miss Mimi Pine during the phase 1 of her pet project visited Orphanage homes/hospitals and donated materials to the motherless/vulnerable children and the sick.