“The Global Girl Project is an initiative dedicated to mobilizing socially-minded and community-driven young women from developing countries to become leaders. Our exchange and blended learning programs are designed to enrich skills-sets, generate support, and provide knowledge for these young leaders to implement their initiatives within their communities. As our...
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For six weeks, some girls in Ijegun Community had been given a life-long opportunity to learn from home and abroad, being part of the Global Girl Project, a partnership with Bestspring Foundation. The girls took part in the Blended Learning Leadership Initiative having gone through different stages of training on...
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Year 2020 started on a very bright and promising note. One of the splendid news that came was the nomination of our Lead Volunteer and Executive Director at Bestspring Foundation, Mrs. Aramide Oikelome as one of the 10 Most Inspiring Women In Nigeria. Wow! This is a huge package from...
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Towards the end of January 2020, we had a three-days IMAGINE Empowerment Workshop for our women, using the modules of the US-based Empowerment Institute. The turnout was impressive, although it would have been more exciting to have more women learn the principles of creating the life they have always wanted...
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For the first time since we started grassroots work in Ijegun and its environs in 2013, we had a special forum with the parents and guardians of our wards. The meeting became expedients considering the reports we were getting about the challenges of raising children in a volatile and crime-prone...
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So much has been going on with the Blended Learning Program of the Global Girl Project which started on 1st February 2020. We have had seven sessions so far as our girls have met every Saturday from 8am to 10am to learn and articulate their thoughts on what action they...
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Here is one of our beautiful dreams come true! Since 2016, Apinke Girls Initiative, under the able leadership of my amiable friend and Amazon; Bimbo Adegbite has partnered with Bestspring Foundation through its Girls Arise Initiative platform to mentor and support our girls. The mentoring program brought a new and...
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The February meeting was scheduled for an educational interactive session with the youth on a ragging social problem and a mentality amongst today’s youth that School Is Scam. Some youths were selected at random from SS1-SS3 by the lead volunteer Mrs Aramide Oikelome to discuss the topic. Many of the...
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It was our first mentoring program for Year 2020 and it was such a delight to see our vibrant youths again after the Christmas break. After exchanging pleasantries and singing to usher in the New Year, the chief hostess and lead volunteer, Mrs Aramide Oikelome gave a motivational talk on Vision...
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For the first time since we began intervention programs to indigent youths and children in Ijegun, December 2019 event came out with a bang. We had the end of the year love party at a nearby church on the 28th December with 90 women, 205 youths and 145 children in...
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