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Nigeria

Steering Ishk's skilling vision and team in Nigeria to empower underserved youth with skills, knowledge, and opportunities to break the cycle of poverty, enhancing their socio-economic status and enabling them to contribute to their communities, fostering purpose and fulfillment actively.

Nigeria

Ishk Tolaram Foundation provides access to quality education, healthcare, and skills training to underserved individuals in Indonesia, Nigeria, Singapore, and Estonia. Our vision is to enable individuals to improve their quality of life.Responsibility: Driving in-country skills strategy, skilling initiatives, grant-making, partnering approach, and team.

Lagos, Nigeria

YEDI focuses on empowering Nigerian youth through innovative health and education initiatives. My notable achievements involve leading a team of 30+ staff and 200+ volunteers in four states to enhance the health literacy, access to services, and resilience of 90,000 underserved youth. Additionally, I spearheaded a groundbreaking project concept for.

Lagos, Nigeria

The Foundation also aims to make contributions in improving public education and literacy levels in Nigeria.Demonstrated exceptional project management skills by designing and launching the SHE Program, a girl child STEM initiative in Lagos. The program empowered 120 underserved girls with mobile tech design skills across six education districts within a.

Rainbow Book Club was the Port-Harcourt UNESCO World Book Capital Project 2014 project manager.Provided strategies, systems, and structures for organizational sustainability and facilitated a statutory audit of the project.

Nigeria

LEAP Africa is a non-profit organization based in Nigeria that focuses on leadership development, entrepreneurship, and youth empowerment. They provide training, mentoring, and support to young people to help them become effective leaders and agents of positive change in their communities.Demonstrated success in donor relations and international.

• Led the development of program proposals, which resulted in the successful acquisition of new grants and the renewal of existing grants for youth work and life skills development initiatives.
• Oversaw the execution of the Nigerian Youth Leadership Awards, annually hosting over 500+ guests from public, private, and diplomatic corps, ensuring seamless guest coordination, impact storytelling, and entertainment.
• Secured $140,000 in private sector counterpart funding and spearheaded the expansion of the LEC program into a youth development train-the-trainer model.
• Functioned as the primary trainer for life, leadership, and employability skills training sessions.
• Played a crucial role in shaping social sector policies through active participation in dialogues focusing on Education, SME development, Gender equality, and Pro-Poor Reforms.
• Mentored program staff to enhance their performance, foster team unity, improve personal effectiveness, and establish an informal assessment framework for evaluating alignment with organizational culture.

• Managed the successful execution of a two-year Microsoft grant focused on underserved youth employability training and job placements. Skillfully trained 2400 young individuals across six cities in Nigeria, enabling.
• Spearheaded the implementation of the Integrity Institute project funded by the UK Government, targeting corruption prevention at the grassroots level in five cities. Empowered 1000 youth with practical knowledge to.
• Coordinated the launch of the Leadership, Ethics & Civics (LEC) program and conducted training sessions for 88 public school teachers in five Nigerian cities. Enhanced teaching methodologies through effective.
• Supervised the LEC cascade sessions for 14,742 public school students, actively contributing to the educational process and evaluation mechanisms within schools.
• Provided guidance and assistance to 499 student-led community projects, fostering collaboration between private and public sector stakeholders.
• Led the delivery of youth leadership training across five states and coordinated the logistics and event planning for the annual alumni gathering in Lagos.

Certificate, Program Design

Worked on case studies and practical tasks on deepening expertise in design, planning, management and innovation in project delivery

Impact Investing And Social Enterprise Management

Engaged in learning immersions with experts from Accion Venture Lab, I-DEV International, Pi Investments, Calvert Foundation, and others.

Peace, Trade And Development

My Monterey Video..

Social Sector Management, Excellence In Pragmatic Ideas

Professional course for social sector leaders to deepen knowledge and skills for building result-oriented and sustainable social enterprises

Certificate, Strategic Leadership

Leadership Beyond Boundaries - strategies and tools for creative leadership

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mass Communication/Advertising & Pr

Activities and Societies: Social Development Skills Volunteer Independent Health CrusaderGained actionable knowledge on effective.

West African Senior School Certificate, Arts Major

Activities and Societies: Current Affairs SocietyArts Major - 3 Distinctions & 5 Credits