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Project Manager of LEARN, Mrs Bisi Awoyomi (L) looks on as a participating student collects her shirt for the Summer School.
Lagos State High School students listening to an instructor during the Summer School organized by LEARN at Eva Adelaja Girls Secondary School.Aug 4, 2009 - LEARN Summer School Formally Opens In Two Centres
After a successful registration which began simultaneously in six centres across the State on July, 27, 2009, the Summer School programme, organized by the Lagos Empowerment and Resource Network (L.E.A.R.N.), finally kicked off in two of the centres Monday, August 3, 2009.
L.E.A.R.N., a pet project of the First Lady of Lagos State, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola is a Non-Governmental Organization with a vision “to contribute to the collective efforts of grooming tomorrow’s leaders to be confident, self sufficient and socially responsive through education, vocational skill training and recreation” and it has among its programmes, vocational subjects like catering, barbing, hairdressing, shoemaking, events decoration and Arts and Crafts in addition to teaching such conventional subjects as Mathematics, English, Civic Duties and Sex-Education.
The ceremony marking the commencement of the programme took place simultaneously in Babs Fafunwa Millennium Secondary School, Ojodu Berger, in Ojudu/Berger Local Council Development Area and Eva Adelaja Girls’ Secondary Grammar School, Bariga, in the Bariga Local Council Development Area of the State.
The two Schools were among the six centres chosen for the six-week programme. Other centres include, Boys Academy, Sandgrouse, Lagos, Surulere Senior Secondary, Surulere, State Senior High School, Oyewole, Agege and Bola Ige Millennium Secondary School, Tolu Village, Ajegunle.
Supervised by the Project Manager, Mrs. Bisi Awoyomi, the programme began at the Eva Adelaja Girls’ Secondary Grammar School, Bariga, with the distribution of L.E.A.R.N. T-shirts to the students who were later ushered into the lecture hall where they were briefed on the curriculum for the entire programme.
Highlights of the opening ceremony also included introductory lesson on computer operation, prep-talks on leadership qualities and sex-education and Adolescence given by a male and a female instructor respectively while the students were later treated to lunch.
At the Babs Fafunwa Millennium Secondary School, Ojodu/Berger, activities also commenced with the distribution of L.E.A.R.N.. T-Shirts to students followed by introductory lecture on computer operation and prep-talks on leadership qualities and sex-education at the premises of the school by some of the instructors who also briefed the students on the curriculum for the programme.
The six-week programme will also include excursions to companies and corporations in the State as part of the Network’s way to give the students an out-of-classroom experience. According to the Project Manager, organizations on the excursion list of the Network include the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO), Indomie Noddles Plc, DN Meyer Plc, Honeywell Superfine Foods, Sweet Sensation and Nigerian Bottling Company Plc.