LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME IN UNIVERSITIES AND POLYTECHNICS
In partnership with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) through Voices for Change (now Purple) KIND was able to improve the Leadership, Decision making and Life-Skills competencies of adolescent boys and girls between the ages of 16 – 25 in University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH).
We employed the use of interactive virtual and physical platforms, referred to as ‘safe spaces’ in the school training. Over 450 young people have benefited from the leadership development programme in both schools and we are still in the process of training more.
PICTURE OF THE TRAINED STUDENTS:
Students on the programme’s impact
Buki Temitope, one trained female student said ‘The training has helped me to develop my leadership skill and made me more assertive’
Oyewunmi Waliu, one of the trained boys said ‘The training made me understand the true meaning of Gender and gender equality and also know how to convince my colleagues not to practice violence against women’
I wish that we knew what kind of number of people are on our side in this fight. Apathy is rampant today. In general people don't seem to care. I talk to people everywhere I go about the issue, most look at me with a blank exrisespon. I am continuing my post-it note campaign. I stick them everywhere that I can. Usually something very simple, like Obama is not eligible to be prez. because his father was not a citizen or NOBAMA 2012. I think that you have to keep it beyond simple, we are a nation of ADD riddled people.