My name is Onor-Obassi Egim Tawo Esq. I  am the Founder/CEO of Okares Sickle Cell Foundation, Calabar, a community of young persons actively pursuing the vision of building a sickle cell free Nigeria through our enlightenment campaigns on sickle cell disorders, support group sessions for persons living with the disorder, and partnering with similar organizations to achieve her foundation’s goals.

Aside pursuing my foundation’s goals, I am a Lawyer in private practice. I have worked as a Legal Practitioner in the Firm of O. N. Agbor & Co Legal Practitioners, administratively as the Executive Manager, Academics at Calabar Hospitality House Limited, and volunteered as a Case Manager/ Logistic Assistant of Fhi360ng, Ikom and Calabar offices, Cross River State, Nigeria.

Being a Member of the YALI Network and a certified YALICares Health Advocate, I am passionate about seeing that Nigeria’s high birth rate of children born with sickle cell disorders is brought to it’s barest minimum. This passion was born from the death of my younger brother, after whom the foundation is named, and the pain I feel and see from every hospital visit.

I am from Cross River State, and resident Cross River State, Nigeria.