Empowerment Day 2021

In July 2021, OGAV was proud to successfully hold our empowerment program – Blooming in Adversity

An initiative catered to 1500 girls in Lagos (Education District 1 – Agege, District 3 – lkoyi and District 4 – Surulere) providing care packs and education. The highlights have been attached below.

A booklet designed for the initiative is also included below. Topics of discussion included ways to become successful in academics, general life coaching, as well as character education.

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The initiative was covered in the following newspapers: The Sun, Lagos Metropolitcan, and This Day.

The following was a thank you video for people and sponsors who helped us run the initiative through their kind donations:

About our Founder

OLUBUSOLA KOLADE studied at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria from where she graduated with an Honor’s degree in Food Science and Technology. She later proceeded to Reading University, England for her Master’s degree in Food Quality Control. She went back for second Master’s Degree at Brunel University London, England for Masters in Environmental Pollution Science with Project Management. Shortly after, she immigrated to Canada and took up an appointment with Ryerson Polytechnic University as an Asst. Professor in the Science department. Olubusola has been an educator in the secondary sector in the last fifteen years with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Her passion for the youth and the need to “catch them young” as she says, made her to go back to Teachers College at Brock University, Hamilton, Canada and since then, has been an employee of TDSB as a teacher. Her passion for the young ones to succeed motivates her to chair/co-chair different initiatives, such as Character Education, the Student Recognition award, the Outstanding Student of the Month Award and the Equity Committee. Olubusola is a firm believer in mentoring youth. She thinks that no youth should be left behind but equipped to achieve success and that good…

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