Drug Abuse in our communities is at its highest and affecting youth development. The education space is the most affected. ChiYoWo identified various causes and the effect its use has on the well -being of students and their families. Over 60 students participated in the workshop.

Team ChiYoWo visited Royal Regency Schools in Badore, Ajah, Lagos State. We had an amazing time with over 200 youth.

Activities:

Girl Child Day Celebration

Drug Abuse Workshop

Book Donation

Special thanks go out to the Management of Royal Regency Schools, NSF(UK), TAAI Consultancy and the Big Secret Company.

ChiYoWo and Friends visit House of Wells in Cape Town, South Africa. Their John Pama Centre in Nyanga Township, was brimming with love and excitement. The staff and students were amazing.  Thank you Pastor Richard and Kemi Oyin-Adeniji for enabling us to share exciting activities with the youth.

ChiYoWo is proud to announce we have found some enthusiastic ChiYoWo Environmental Stewards (CES)  as part of our ‘Education on Environmental Sustainability’ activities, at TALENT LINK SCHOOL, YOMI PEDRO STREET, IYANA IPAJA, LAGOS STATE. Our pictures tell our story :).

Did you know only 9% of plastic waste produced has been recycled? That more than 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced since the early 1950s with approximately 60% now in landfills or in our natural habitat? ~ UNenvironment.org

#SDG13climateaction
#beatplasticpollution
#globalgoals
#education
#worldenvironmentday2018

Thanks to our Youth4Growth Team who delivered high impacting environment awareness activities. Guess what? The kids planted our first tree at our host school. The ChiYoWo Team simply Rock ~ it’s how we Give Back. Hugs to our Home and our Planet.

Happy World Environment Day.

Our gratitude continues to go out to our development and Book Drive Partners – TAAI Consultancy, NSF-UK and The Big Secret Company

The Children, Youth and Women Empowerment Initiative team celebrated Children’s Day 2018 in Lagos State and Edo State.

Theme: ‘Empowering Future Leaders – Protecting and Safeguarding Children.

Activities:

1. Educational Quiz Competitions
2. Interactive Games
3. Spelling Bee Competitions
4. Motivational and Leadership Discussions
5. Presentation of reading books to children

Let’s keep on empowering our children and youth!

Enjoy!

Books and Games Donors: Nigerian Schools Foundation (UK) & The Big Secret Company.

A Children, Youth and Women Empowerment Initiative.

Three schools came together Far Sights Schools, Fahove International School and Brought Brain School and took part in an inter-collegiate debate, leadership board game activity, spelling bee competition. The aim was to celebrate education, collaboration, and participation at the grassroot level.

Our Experience…

Uber Driver: Ma, why do you go to hard to reach areas like this one. Don’t you think more people want to collaborate with you if you work with only high ranking and profiled schools

Me (Toks): Maybe you are right but if we all concentrate on those schools who will reach the forgotten children and their schools?

3 hours later – Principal of host school: Thank you very much ChiYoWo for visiting our school! We love all the activities and how you interacted with our school and the 2 visiting schools. Thanks for the lovely books.  May God bless you and your team richly…please don’t forget us and be sure to visit us again.

Community: Alaro Meiran, Lagos State

Total Journey Time: 5 hours

Conditions: Heavy traffic, rush hour, some good roads, roadworks, many potholes, flustered driver and sweaty Diva and bewildered volunteer (Francis) who met up with us and showed us the way.

Volunteers: Francis, Stephanie, Ubok, Wura and Me (Toks) 🙂

Supporting Team: The ChiYoWo Family!

It’s how we roll :)…

Our concluding visit…it’s a wrap. #BookDriveNigeria2017 visits Methodist Basic Primary School Okin-Apa and Okin High School Okin-Apa, Ogomosho, Oyo State. Thanks to Oba Prof. Akintola the Alapa of Okin-Apa land. We truly appreciate all our well-wishers, donors, sponsors volunteers and you. #Sustainabledevelopment #Empowering #Developing #Impacting Thank you for being a part of our journey.

Watch out for our short documentary…uploading shortly. It’s what we do…

Yes, we visited Gifted Scholars Nursery and Primary School in Onitsha, Anambra State. We sang songs and had our Spelling Bee Competition. Catch them young at the #BookDriveNigeria2017. Our donated books will be the first books in their library. Thank you to all the Donors and Team ChiYoWo.

#Qualityeducation

#Readbooksforlife

#BookDriveNigeria2017…Soaring Heights Model Schools, Asaba, Delta State. The pupils blew us away with their talent.They were eager to showcase their expertise in dance as well. We can’t wait to see the videos 🙂.

#Educationiswealth
#SDGEducation
#Literacyforlife

Yes, Benin City received us with open arms. Hello to New Era College, Benin City, Edo State. Achieve literacy through accessing reading books.

#BookDriveNigeria2017
#BooksSDG4

#GirlChild

#Literacyfor all

#BookDriveNigeria2017 ChiYoWo’s visit to Ogelle Primary School Ughelli, Delta State was very exciting. The ‘Bring Back Our Reading Culture’ is gaining ground. The pupils were excited to see us and our guests were very appreciative of our work. The tension was high during the Spelling Bee Competition. Fun all the way!!!