Mission
To reduce the number of children born with Sickle Cell Disease by raising more awareness through education within the community at large
To facilitate better management and care of patients living with the disease by providing better education about the disease to the medical, patient and community groups.
To support those living with the disease by establishing support groups, emergency funds, scholarships, seminars, educational session and advocating for them with the Government

Programs and activities that we offer

1. Patient Visitation Program: A very important program ensuring that capable and smiling volunteers visit the patients when they are sick. Because a crisis admission could last for weeks, quite often family members are very stressed staying in the hospital with their loved ones day in day out; many also have to miss a great number of work days. With SCAGO volunteers, parents and family members are relieved and given the needed break.

2. Parents Network: In a quest to ensure parents are being educated and supported while taking care of their own children, SCAGO's Parents Support Network allows the parents to meet monthly and talk about different issues that are crucial to them. Many look forward to this constructive meetings where they relieve their stress by educating and socializing with one another

3. Youth Initiative: The young people are peculiar and need to be encouraged to come together and discuss issues peculiar to them especially issues around transition from pediatric to adult care. (Age group is 17-25 years)

4. Learning for Life Seminars: A monthly gathering where a Sickle Cell Specialist comes to educate the patients and their family members once a month. It encourages interaction between the medical and the patient community.

5. Scholarship Grant: This is for those in post secondary institution. SCAGO administers the Sunday Afolabi Scholarship grant, and the Sholape Animashawun Nursing grant for young people who are admitted to post secondary institutions

6. Laptop Initiative: Some young people living with Sickle Cell disease have dexterity problems. In the light of this, the Sunday Afolabi laptop initiative is created to offer these young people essential laptops to aid them in their quest to excel academically

7. Idera Emergency Grant: IDERA Emergency Grant is created to help families in dire financial need whose children is living with Sickle Cell Disease

8. Yearly Summit: Co- organizes a yearly medical Conference to better educate the Medical and the Allied Health workers on the disease so as to propel a better understanding & management of Sickle Cell Disease in the absence of viable cure. A better understanding by the medical team definitely means better care of the patients and great relief to parents

9. Advocacy: SCAGO advocates and speaks on behalf of the patient community to the Ministry of health and others law makers.

10. SCAGO's speakers visit various organizations and provide the groups with more education and awareness around this disease with a quest to increase more testing by the populace which will help to reduce the number of births born with the disease.

11. SCAGO gives genetic counselling to couples in other to ensure that are tested and are better informed about Sickle Cell Disease.

12. SCAGO works with the hospitals to ensure better knowledge and continual research on Sickle Cell Disease within the Medical professionals.