Project Safe Hands

Nigeria faces a critical emergency response crisis characterized by severe pre-hospital delay due to:

1) fragmented ambulance services and heavy traffic,

2) dangerous traditional practices (e.g., pouring oil on burns, inserting items into seizing patient’s mouth)

3)knowledge gap where first-aid is widely viewed as a specialized, elite skill rather than an accessible necessity for everyday citizens.

Project Safe Hands is a community driven healthcare intervention designed to bridge the critical gap between the onset of a medical emergency and the arrival of professional medical help, with an aim to turn bystanders into confident first responders.

The goal is to establish extracurricular clubs in secondary and tertiary schools with a structured 12-module curriculum covering CPR, bleeding control, burns, fractures, poisoning, and the “Recovery Position.”  In the next nine months, 1,000 individuals will receive training, creating a network of community-based first responders.