IGBODO DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
This initiative focuses on mentoring young people towards developing leadership skills, building a community of inspired and motivated youth and giving them a platform to become viable change makers and relevant contributors to community development and nation building.
We Lead Mentorship Program, Igbodo 2018
In 2018,We Lead Mentorship Program, Igbodo was launched with a focus on mentoring teenage boys and girls in Igbodo community toward developing leadership skills, building an Igbodo community of inspired and motivated youth and giving them a platform to become viable change makers and relevant contributors to community development and nation building. This program in partnership with Union Bank, was designed to harness community resources towards developing internal solutions to the most prevalent problem of youth leadership development, focusing on students within the school age of 12 -20 years who are easily swayed in perpetrating societal vices.
Igbodo Development Library/Book Club Project.
In a bid to revive and imbibe the reading culture among school children of the Igbodo community, a fully equipped functional library was provided as well as the implementation of the Book club project in 2018 still in partnership with Union Bank. These two new platforms developed focuses on mentoring teenage boys and girls within the ages of 13- to 20 years, in secondary schools of Igbodo community towards developing leadership skills, building a community of inspired, motivated youths, viable change makers and relevant contributors to community development and nation building.
Igbodo Youth Development Program 2019
The Igbodo Youth Development Program 2019 (IYDP) is designed to empower Igbodo youth on viable 21st century skills relevant for accessing opportunities across regions. The core areas chosen for this project were informed by growing trend in the world.
Still implemented in partnership with Union Bank, the IYDP 2019 focused on empowering community indigenes with economically advantageous and lucrative skills which they can utilize in cities and towns for economic benefits as well as prepare its beneficiaries to create opportunities, identify opportunities and be empowered to create financial opportunities for themselves wherever they find themselves through their skills. This year, Ninety-Six youths of the Igbodo community were empowered with Basic computer and ICT Skills