The Mentoring Challenge is a platform to inspire young women to reach out and become influential. In the programme, young women will learn to practically mentor secondary school girls and their peers, and also to mobilize women for women-based events. The school girls will be supplied with the knowledge needed for everyday personal, academic and social development and the young women will be inspired to reconsider their wider role as catalysts for lasting social change.
In 2011, Idea Builders conducted a survey among 1000 secondary school girls within the ages of 11-18 and classes JS3 - SS3, and the results furnished us with the understanding that most of these girls lacked necessary information in the areas of teen pregnancy, relating with boys & men, molestation & rape, peer pressure, career planning, time management, etc. More so, the girls appeared to be unwilling to communicate these things with parents and teachers.
The Contenders - young ladies - in this Challenge undergo a 3-months formal mentoring where they are paired with mentors of diverse backgrounds. Afterwards, they - the already mentored contenders - are required to execute a set of tasks, including: organizing group training sessions for secondary school girls, recruiting a team of volunteers, executing one self-driven, 'pay-forward' project and inaugurating a peer mentoring club in the schools, etc.
The Mentoring Challenge inducts young women and girls into personal social responsibility, public service, volunteering, community mobilizing, and leadership preparation. The girls who enroll for this programme are empowered with knowledge to decisively handle real-life issues. Skills are also learned across social, career and academic landscapes.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
