Planning

Our approach to revitalizing education and supporting skills acquisition in Nigeria
• Webinars and Tweetchats:
We have been organizing webinars and tweetchats that majorly focus onencouraging students and young ones to keep studying hard. We invitescholars andacademicians to address them by sharing their experiences with them. • Movement on “Education for Every Child”
We are currently running a social media awareness campaign and movement to support education for every child. We intend to go about schools and donate free textbooks to the less privileged, and train children on the digital skills they need to succeed academically. This will take place in Public schools and uncivilized areas in the following regions (Osun, Ogun, Lagos, Ibadan (Ogbomoso), Kogi and Anambra. • Debates and Spelling Bees Competitions:
A lot of graduates can’t face the crowd and address the general public. We will organize debates and programmes that will aid Primary school pupils and Secondary School Students to develop Public speaking capabilities. Prizes will be awarded to the best and brightest students.
• Skill Acquisition and Empowerment Programmes:
At GEGAS Africa, we believe in education as well as skill acquisition. We intend to train secondary school students on how to code and use a number of software such as Python, JAVA, HTML, MATLab, Corel Draw, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor etc. We will also train interested students on some basic entrepreneurship skilss such as bead making, baking and confectioneries, bag and shoe making, make-up and make-overs, ties and accessories making, event decoration, calligraphy, fashion designing, etc. Encouragement and Facilitation of Rural/Graduate youth entrepreneurship: the organisation intends to provide the space for coaching young minds on entrepreneurship and facilitating easy access to funding for their talents, skills, dreams, and ventures.
• Tech-Entrepreneurship Summit:
This is the biggest part of our projects. We intend to go about higher institutions and prepare them for life after school. A lot of speakers would be invited from across the country to address final year students, and also, award grants to students with the most promising Tech-Entrepreneurship plans and visions.

Success

The success of our most recent programmes, online campaigns, webinars and offline trainings have seen us received invitations for partnership, sponsorship opportunities from other reputable organizations.

Initially, the SACT 1.0 programme model canvas was built to focus on just 6 schools across the federation but we were eventually able to visit a total of 14 schools. The “Skills Acquisition and Career Talk” programme tagged SACT 1.0 which impacted up to 14 schools across 12 states (a total of 8,314 students) in Nigeria had us visit some schools some of which included but are not limited to:

1. Impact International Academy, Benue state
2. Community Secondary School Igbariam, Anambra state
3. Landmark Secondary School, Benue state
4. Imaguero College, Edo state
5. Moret Comprehensive College, Oyo state.
6. Badore Model Secondary School, Lagos state
7. St. Louis Secondary school, Ondo state, to mention but a few. Click here to see a mini-report.

We also recently held a focus group session with supports from The Mindset Africa and AREAi where participants sat in a circle and were availed the opportunity of talking and sharing thoughts with one another. Attendees of this focus group consultation session are clearly defined set of stakeholders some of which were: Rose, Nene, Wale, Kelechi, Oluchi, Yomi, Abiola to mention but a few. The consultation session was launched by giving a 5min presentation on the Futures of Education Initiative. The presentation provided participants with immense understanding of how their ideas would be used and may contribute to the initiative (focused on Quality Education).