We are advocates for all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a particular focus on SDG4 – Education.

We strongly believe that quality education can serve as the bedrock for all the SDGs. Indeed, with good quality and inclusive education in place, the 17 SDGs will be embraced at an alarming rate at all levels in our communities. Right now, there is a dire need to educate children, youth, families, corporate bodies, government institutions, civil societies and more on the impact of adequate knowledge about the SDGs for development. These are enormous with direct results evident in eradication poverty, living a life of prosperity and learning how to love our planet.

ChiYoWo alone cannot impact the communities it works in alone. This is why we seek to develop strong working ties with various third parties to ensure our wider audiences become empowered and continue to advocate for sustainable development. Access to good education,  jobs, health, gender equality, the use of technology, and a clearer understanding of how to manage our planet will most definitely lead to giant steps in eradicating poverty, especially on the African continent.

We teach the World Largest Lesson #Teachsdgs @chiyowoini across schools and meet with third parties to get their buy-in and advocate for more awareness of the SDGs in business sectors.

We are the Children, Youth and Women (ChiYoWo) Empowerment Initiative, repositioning mindsets everywhere we go.

Photo: Amina J. Mohammed – Deputy Secretary-General, UN and Tokunbo Ifaturoti (New York)

Igbobi College students were excited to see us. We liaised with Igbobi College old Boys Association (Europe)  ICOBA – Europe and made this visit a reality in Nigeria. The College, established in 1932 by Methodist and Anglican Churches is where Prof. Osinbajo the Vice President of Nigeria graduated from with great pride.

Activities:

1. Debate Social Media as a modern tool for communication; is it beneficial or detrimental to students studying in Nigerian Secondary schools?
2. Drug Awareness Seminar
3. Book and Board Game Donation

Thanks to NSF(UK), TAAI Consultancy and The Big Secret Company for the Books and Educational Leadership Board Game.

ChiYoWo visited the oldest Secondary School in Nigeria and second oldest in Sub -Sahara Africa. Over 900 students participated in our workshops.

1. Drug Abuse Awareness Seminar
2. Debate Topic: The quality of education received by Nigerian Secondary Schools Students equip them to compete with their global counterparts. True or False
3. Book Donation

Thanks to NSF(UK), TAAI Consultancy Ltd and The Big Secret Company

Duval School, Ajah, Lagos State were excited to see us. We were on a mission to donate reading books to their library. We had fun filled activities.

1. Projection and Acting Workshop
2. Drama
3. Drug Awareness Workshop
4.  Motivational Talk
5. Question and Answer Session

Thanks to our partners NSF(UK), TAAI Consultancy Limited and the Big Secret Company

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 :)…