Project Update: Mentorship Event Features Speakers, Games, Shared Experiences



U.S. Consul General Hawkins encouraged students to seek out people they admire to serve as mentors in their lives.

The CYFI Education Team kicked off their mentorship program with flourish on Saturday morning, leading an event that featured several speakers, including U.S. Consul General Jeff Hawkin. Students from four area secondary schools gathered to meet their mentors and participate in a morning full of speakers and events.

The team writes: Mr. Bimbo Ajibola, a successful young entrepreneur from the Morning Spice talk show and an alumni of Ikeja Senior High School, one of the program's target schools, spoke about his career path and academic challenges. It was indeed a wow experience to learn that despite his many encounters with failure in school -- he failed in his examinations ten times -- he never gave up . And today he is an IT guru and a very successful entrepreneur.

U.S. Consul General Jeff Hawkins of the U.S. Consulate General, Lagos, spoke about his mentors and the importance of mentoring. He stressed that a mentor is someone who has wisdom to share and that a mentor makes his protégé feel special. He admonishes young people to recognize people who have made great impact in their lives.



Students from four local secondary schools attended the event.

Another notable guest speaker was Mrs. Akinlade Omolola, the Assistant Director of Education, Lagos State Ministry of Education. She spoke on 'Education the Challenges and Prospects.' It was such a classic, inspiring moment.

The day ended with some team building games and a mentorship session in which the group's volunteer mentors met their young mentees. The group had recruited 30 young professionals from different work fields as volunteer mentors, and they were paired with their respective mentees based on shared interests and their course of study.

 

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