Nigeria’s foremost dance icon Kaffy is working to ensure that her colleagues in the entertainment industry get health insurance.
The entertainer through her Kreative Arts Foundation for Youths (KAFFY) is collaborating with stakeholders to bring health insurance to Nigerian dancers amid the health challenges leading to the loss of lives among them.
Kaffy and stakeholders in the industry, including healthcare providers, health management organizations, life coaches, dance group leaders, and dance artists met to make a sustainable healthcare deal at a two-day virtual conference tagged ‘Dance2Health’.
The summit was the initiative of the KAFFY foundation and is the first of its kind, birthed to cater to the growing health challenges facing dance members in the industry.
Speaking about the initiative, Kaffy said:
More than 98% of dancers lack health insurance and self-awareness. The majority lead a lifestyle of drugs, peer pressure, poor mental wellbeing, and personal irresponsibility.
This is the bane of the industry. Until every corporate dance leader is shouldered with the responsibility of ensuring that every staff (dancer) has a valid health insurance cover this industry lacks a heart.
We agreed to start small in Lagos State by running with a proper organizational structure, proper registration of dancers within Local Government Areas, evaluating the cost of healthcare per unit, and finally putting up a system that stirs sustainable support and sponsorship is the way to go. This conference is an ongoing conversation that was proposed to run twice per month.”
