MINDPOWER Training Profile

INTRODUCTION

A youth, according to National Youth Policy of 2009, is someone between the ages of 18 and 35 and this class of people constitutes more than 50% of the total population in Nigeria.

Despite the teeming population of youth as reported by National Population Census, 2006, their qualitative impact has not been fully unveiled and thereby slowing down the pace of development and transformation.

An ideal youth is a person with strong penchant for adventure, development and transformation; passionate, energetic, innovative, creative, mobile, versatile, agile, eager to make positive change and ready to champion positive movement.

With great potentials yet untapped, Nigerian youths have suffered from years of mis-governance and this has not only paralyzed their creative and innovative power but largely incapacitated their youthfulness and usefulness.

Against this background, MINDPOWER, a project symposium with focus on Innovation, Creativity, Youth Emancipation, Development and Transformation was envisioned to empower youths so as to proffer solutions to societal, national and global problems.

THE NEED

Youth are the real wealth of a nation but this will remain abstract without a well-functioning mind. There can never be significant structural development or transformation without first and foremost mind development.  A mind in fresh bloom is poised to see the world anew and come up with fresh innovations - solutions to problems that have sometimes eluded others for ages. In the words of Robert Kennedy, “This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life, but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”

OBJECTIVES

*  Emancipating the youth from mental servitude and charting a new path for paradigm shift;

*  Empowering the youth and showing them their place in development, leadership, peace and good governance;

*  Engaging the youth in solving problems through their skills, innovation and creativity;

*  Shaping and sharpening youth vocational skills in a bid to reduce unemployment and promote self-reliance;

*  Raising 21st century young CEOs who will give birth to community integration and national transformation;

FOCUS

In order to achieve the symposium objectives, five thematic areas will be considered and these shall be the focus of this symposium. They are;

*  Innovation

*  Creativity

*  Youth Emancipation

*  Development

*  Transformation

RESOURCE PERSONS

Our resource persons are carefully selected experts with prompt and pragmatic response to youth and community development as well as contributing to knowledge, insight, exposition and innovation.

STRICT ADVICE FOR LADIES!

Don’t command your partner like a child and stop acting like a goliath!  Some ladies find it difficult to get suitors simply because they are too Authoritative and Domineering?

I bet you, no guy will come near such ladies except they want to marry half-baked guys (Mumu).  An average man naturally carries ego; they always like to be respected, honoured and worshiped, acting in full capacity as a man even when there is nothing to show for it. Apology to men!

Though I advocate Gender Equality but the campaign, especially in marriage is ‘Complementing’ not ‘Competing’. My dream is to raise a new generation of women who can take their stand, discover their purpose, build their potential, assume leadership positions and participate in the development process; females who will be the best in their chosen careers as well as complementing their male counterparts.

However, if the woman is becoming uncontrollable, then the campaign is no more Gender Equality. Even if you are older than him, more educated than him, richer and wealthier than him, influential and popular than him, have larger experience and exposure than him, all these are no proof to be authoritative.

Statistically, the number of single ladies and divorcee increases every day and this could be traceable to females’ superiority and authoritativeness in relationship. Listen to this, you may never find a loving guy to submit to but you will surely meet a guy who will love you if you submit to him. Your duty is to Submit and his responsibility is to Love. The fact that you finish from the same school, the same department at the same time, work in the same organization, earn the same salary is no basis to disrespect him.

Have a fulfilling relationship!

Teniola Kehinde

Your Success Partner

© YoungPaths INT’L

MORE THAN 400 COPIES GIVEN OUT FREELY

THE HORSEWOMAN by Teniola Kehinde was written to bring out the BEST in you and for this reason together with other notable factors, I made up my mind to give out the first print FREELY.  As such, I am using this medium to say A BIG SORRY to those who have requested but have not gotten.  This is due to limited copies available.  Based on the mandate to bring out the YOU in you, I am presently working on how you will get the soft copy (e-book) but before this is ready, you can join www.facebook.com/groups/youngpaths for more about the book together with other purpose discovery messages.
 

Far above achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), THE HORSEWOMAN is a catalyst for individual emancipation, community integration and national transformation.

Discover the YOU in you!

Teniola Kehinde

Your Success Partner

© YoungPaths INT’L

PROJECT REPORT OF SIX (6) NOTICE BOARDS TO AUGIE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, KEBBI STATE BY YOUNGPATHS INT’L

Executive Arm of Augie Local Government

Vice Principal, G.G.S.S.,  Augie

Principal, G.D.S.S., Augie

Corpers Liaison Officer (CLO), NYSC 

Secretariat, Augie

INTRODUCTION
The importance of information cannot be overemphasized in any community, both from internal and external sources.  Billion of information flows per seconds across the globe and this is communicated through many media. One of these media especially the one applicable and appropriate for local dissemination of information is NOTICE BOARD. 

To this end, YoungPaths INT’L constructed and donated six (6) Notice Boards to Augie Local Government in order to facilitate easy dissemination of information.

GOAL

Creating a formidable platform for literacy and dissemination of information so as to keep members of the community abreast of local, state, national and global happenings

OBJECTIVES

-         To achieve Universal Basic Education and facilitate Adult Literacy

-         To keep members of the community informed

ACTIVITIES

The construction of these Notice Boards started with a visit to various Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Government Parastatals to know those that are in need of Notice Board and those that have but in bad condition.  Having carried out this Needs Assessment, the following parastatals were found without Notice Board; Augie Local Government Secretariat, NYSC Secretariat, Government Girls Secondary School and Government Day Secondary School all in Augie Local Government. After dialogue with the heads of the above named parastatals, the consent to construct the Notice Boards was given.  The project started on 2nd October, 2012, finished on 13th October, 2012 and was presented on 15th, 16th and 17th to the respective beneficiaries.

At the end of the presentation, the followings were achieved;

-         Enthusiasms and appreciation from the beneficiaries

-         Intense awareness about the impacts of corps members and MDGs facilitators in Augie

-         Increased awareness of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) amongst stakeholders and community members

BENEFICIARIES

-         Augie Local Government Secretariat, Augie              -           1

-         NYSC Secretariat, Augie                                             -           2         

-         Government Girls Secondary School, Augie              -           2

-         Government Day Secondary School, Augie                -           1

LESSONS LEARNT

-         Notice Board contributes significantly to the learning process of students and adults

-         Notice board makes awareness more easy, especially in an organization, school or government parastatals

-         Notice board connects people and serves as reminder to people…

RECOMMENDATIONS

1.      Construction of more Notice Boards to Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Government Parastatals

2.      Training on the proper use of Notice Board

3.      Establishment of Community-Based Press Club

SUSTAINABILITY

The following strategies were put in place in order to sustain this project;

-         Writing a comprehensive report to Augie Local Government and NYSC Secretariat, requesting them to utilize these boards judiciously;

-         Handling over two of these boards to Editorial CDS members in order to help them discharge their duties appropriately;

-         Handling over two of these boards to MDGs CDS members so as so intensify MDGs awareness amongst community members

SOURCES OF FUND

-     Augie Local Government

-   Philanthropists           

CONCLUSION

Information board is a complementary tool in the learning process of every individual and it also aids community development.  It informs, updates, sensitizes and educates people about what is right and wrong.  With these Notice Boards, awareness creation, sensitization, reorientation and education will become easier.