Today in our “8 warrior heroine” series I bring to you Ifeoma Chrys-Bernadette Ifejika from Port Harcourt, River State in Nigeria. Ifeoma Chrys-Bernadette Ifejika is a 51 years old lady living with sickle cell disease and a consistent advocate for better care and cure for sickle cell disease. Her work has positively changed many lives both in Nigeria and Uganda though her sickle cell advocacy organization called Sickle Cell Interactive and Management Association (SCIMA).
Hundreds of people with sickle cell disease in Uganda have benefited from her donations and their lives changed forever. She knows that sickle cell has no border and her work her gone beyond Nigeria’s border.
Ifeoma believes that living with sickle cell must not define you.
“Never live your life with your mind wrapped around your condition, aspire to be all you can be in spite of your condition.”
“Never live your life with your mind wrapped around your condition, aspire to be all you can be in spite of your condition.”
She has helped many warriors, those younger than her and those older than her.
Currently through SCIMA she is working to see that many people with sickle cell especially in Nigeria can get cured of sickle cell through bone marrow transplant locally in Nigeria.
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