The project is meant to be an information and solution platform - to create awareness of the problem (environmental decay) and the health problems/infections/illnesses that stem from environmental pollution (in the initial stage).
The solutions will include doing the littlest things such as cleaning up one's own immediate environment, avoiding littering, going on outreaches to provide different communities/ areas of public health interest with waste disposal materials, and being a platform to appeal to government and private environmental protection agencies to be reminded of the importance of a healthy and clean environment.
It would be quite easy within my campus setting because of the janitorial staff that
make sure the premises are kept clean.
This project will partner with the Babacock University Association of Medical Students during its ‘Joy to the World’ annual outreaches in December to sensitize selected less privileged communities on the benefits and dangers of environmental protection and pollution respectively, as well as with the Babcock University Student Body Health Committee. We will also provide these communities/areas with sanitary products, specifically waste bins and bags to avoid careless dumping refuse and other wastes.
My role as the Babcock University Coordinator/Head of the Standing Committee on
Environmental Protection Activities of the Nigerian Medical Students Association (SCOEPA) gives me the opportunity to organize online webinars, and physical
programs to talk to people about environmental protection and its dangers.
An added way to impact a larger demographic is liaising with other Medical School
SCOEPA reps to implement this plan in their various medical schools. I plan to bring
the bulk of this plan to bear during the Southwest Nigerian Regional Conference of the Nigerian Medical Students Association in August 2023.