The Centre for Youth Studies’ 10 week Life Skills training programme for the forty-three (43) blind students in King’s College Senior and Junior and Queen’s College, Lagos State sponsored largely by Access Bank Plc, was designed as a practicum for nineteen (19) leaders in the disability clusters trained in 2019.
The Nineteen (19) leaders in the disability clusters (10 female, 9 male) including the newly appointed GM of LASODA, Oluwadamilare Ogundairo, taught the ten (10) training topics between January 24, 2020 and August 14, 2020, with classes running simultaneously at the three (3) locations.
The training programme was interrupted in March due to the COVID 19 Pandemic Lockdown. Classes resumed online at the insistence of the students on July 24, 2020 and were run via ZOOM, WhatsApp and Telegram.
Exposing the blind students to the leaders in the disability clusters opened up many of the students to possibilities beyond what they had dreamt of and gave them relatable role models.
The practicum was also a learning opportunity to acquire new skills sets for the leaders in the disability clusters.
The first phase of the project ended with the presentation of certificates on October 30, 2020 to the blind students and the investiture of their officers to run the FTS (For Tomorrow’s Sake) CLUB in the schools as a co-curricular school club open to regular students.
The trained blind students have now become peer educators.
Some photos of the event:
