THE STAINLESS SMILE PROJECT

The Stainless Smile Project is a community health and entrepreneurship project designed to specifically tackle the challenges associated with poor oral hygiene, as a result of low oral health education and limiting socio-economic status by increasing oral health literacy and empowering people to practice good oral hygiene through self actualization and the implementation of invaluable health information and entrepreneurial knowledge.

The first phase of the Stainless Smile project (E-Health connect) reached over 18,735 participants with vital oral health information, online and offline through our social media channels and community awareness campaigns and offered free dental screening to over 251 people during our first community outreach exercise. This humble milestone qualified this project to participate in the 2014 World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers ‘I AM BOLD Social Venture COMPETITION and it qualified as the 3^rd place winner of the 4 finalists. Plans are underway to reach over 100,000 people with this campaign by exploring more media channels and offer screening and referral service to at least 5000 people in this second phase.

This second phase tagged ET2SMILE (Empower Them To Smile) is specially designed to target children, teenagers, young adults and women leveraging on their ability to influence and drive health and human behaviours. (Do watch our space for highlights of the programme)

This project is powered by Fisher Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa; a non-profit organization working towards youth empowerment and employability programs, agriculture, education, health, governance and community development to improve the living conditions of the poor and marginalized by adopting strategies through community initiative, participation and sensitization.

Promoted by Ashoka Innovators for the Public in 2013 and in partnership with the Enactus team from Federal University of Technology Owerri, the organization has worked among backward communities in the interior unreached pockets of Ihiagwa, Eziobodo and Obinze. Youth Corps Members in Imo State have also benefited from the partnership that exists between the Foundation and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) enabling them to contribute towards mainstream development processes.

Our goal is to provide and apply relevant local health strategies and solutions to global health challenges, by motivating people to take simple preventive health solutions that make big differences, Thus make oral health care uniformly attainable in Africa by helping it’s populates take responsibility of their health through strategically organized seamless health awareness campaigns and access to referral services and entrepreneurship schemes to improve their standard of living.

We are unstoppably poised to do more!!!

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