We are super elated to have successfully concluded 8 weeks of fieldwork across the 8 public secondary schools on S.M.I.L.E’s 2022 Young Leaders Mentoring Program. This unique component of our program provides an opportunity for the 40 Change Champions on S.M.I.L.E’s Young Leaders Mentoring Program, to pass on the knowledge gained during the program to […]
Dear Friends, This month’s spotlight is on 19 years old Balikis Adedokun, a Mass Communication student of the Lagos State University. In 2018, she emerged as the Change Champion of the year in the S.M.I.L.E Young Leaders Mentoring Program. Balikis has successfully converted her passion into an online talk show called “Mama Talk Talk”, which […]
14 Youth!1 Executive Mentor!The transformational journey for these amazing Youth starts this weekend! We are so elated to officially kick off the second batch of S.M.I.L.E’s Executive Mentoring Program for Youth(EMPY) on Saturday March 12, 2022. 14 Youth ( 13 youth from Nigeria and 1 from United States of America) comprising of undergraduates, graduates and […]
We were highly honoured to have one of S.M.I.L.E’s dedicated partners, Paulette Davis-Richardson join us virtually from the Bahamas, for the fourth Module of the 2022 Young Leaders Mentoring Program on Saturday, February 26, 2022.In her remarks to the Change Champions, she gave an illustration of an orange full of seeds that cannot be seen […]
A major high point of the fourth module of the 2022 Young Leaders Mentoring Program was Vision Board session facilitated by our new partner, the Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Team of Wema Bank Plc. It was indeed a great delight and honour and we are grateful to the team led by Ms. Olamide Oladele, the […]
The high rate of unemployment and the need to ignite the spark of entrepreneurship as an alternative source of income and livelihood was the crux of the third session of the fourth module of the 2022 Young Leaders Mentoring Program focused on Entrepreneurship Education. This enlightening session was facilitated by a Youth Facilitator and S.M.I.L.E […]
More young people are faced with mental health challenges born out of a myriad of reasons such as dysfunctional homes, financial limitations, peer pressure, low self-esteem etc which hinder their productivity and affect their self-confidence and their zest for a better future. To address some of these issues observed among the indigent youth we work […]
The practical session on Achieving Academic Excellence and Making Excellent Career Choices was taken by the Program Coordinator of S.M.I.L.E and an Alumni, Mrs Ajibola Babalola. She took the Change Champions through her personal academic journey to spur their zest for academic excellence, sharing steps she took to become a first class graduate. She encouraged […]
In a bid to raise digitally equipped young leaders, this year S.M.I.L.E introduced Digital Literacy into the curriculum of the Young Leaders Mentoring Programme(YLMP). During the first session of the 4th Module of the YLMP which held on Saturday, February 26, 2022, the Change Champions were exposed to general computer knowledge, Microsoft packages, social networking, […]
Dear Friends, This months’s spotlight is on 25 years old Grace Oluwagboun, a graduate of Animal and Environmental Biology, from the University of Port Harcourt. She is an enterprising young entrepreneur who specializes in ankara craft and branding. We are so elated at her zest for building and scaling her businesses and her transformational journey […]