Education Nigeria Project #29275

Help 500 Nigerian Teens Go Back to School

by Initiative for Sound Education, Relationship & Health

Project Report | Nov 1, 2017
ISERH SCHOLARSHIP's QUALIFYING EXAMINATION HELD

By Abdulahi Abayomi Abdulraheem | Executive Director

Cross section of ABC candidates

Initiative for Sound Education, Relationship & Health (ISERH) held on Saturday 28th of October, 2017, her 5th edition of Aspiring the Best Competition (ABC), that serves as the qualifying examination for every high school student who wants to benefit ISERH’s scholarship to write SSCE/UTME for FREE and a gateway to selecting ISERH Ambassadors, ISERH Dream Scholars, and ISERH Excellent Teacher Awardees. Over 71 high school students sat for this year’s examination in Oshogbo, Ile-Ife and Ilesa centers. The results are expected to be out and available for checking/printing on the ABC Portal (www.abcexam.iserh.org) starting from Monday, 20th of Nov., 2017.

In the same vein, GlobalGiving has credited ISERH’s Nigerian bank account with a sum of Three Hundred and Sixty-Seven Thousand, and Thirty-Four Naira, Forty-Two Kobo (N367,034.42) on Thursday 26th of Oct., 2017, being the fund raised through our recent fundraising project - titled ‘Help 500 Nigerian Teens Go Back to School’. Consequent upon our failure to meet the targeted amount of fund to help 500 teenagers, the disbursed fund is to be used in sponsoring the SSCE/UTME of 17 high school students, providing textbooks and notebooks for 30 high school students, while 4 high school students are to be provided with schoolbags, textbooks and notebooks.

The 17 students to benefit ISERH scholarship to write SSCE/UTME shall be drawn from the candidates who sat for this year’s Aspiring the Best Competition (ABC) and scored 75% and above, while an online nomination form shall be made available to the public to nominate 3 rural communities within the 3 Senatorial Districts in the State of Osun where the beneficiaries of our schoolbags, textbooks and notebooks shall be drawn.

As we might have known, ISERH has sponsored the SSCE/UTME of over 80 high school students in the State of Osun within 3 years of her existence, while about 43 of them are now in Universities/Polytechnics studying courses of their choice. 17 Osun teachers have been honoured with ISERH Excellent Teacher Award, over 450 high school students have been equipped with textbooks and other school supplies, while over 25,000 young people have accessed our other services through ISERH Youth Affairs Center (YAC).

At ISERH, we believe that together and through qualitative education and ethical leadership development, we shall build for the world: A Peaceful, Informed and Healthy Nation of Ethical Leaders!

An ABC candidate

2017 ABC Supervisors for Ilesa Center

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Feedback from an ABC Candidate in Ile-Ife

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Oct 24, 2017
GlobalGiving's 2017 Fail Forward Contest

By Abdulahi Abayomi Abdulraheem | Executive Director

A sample of Aspiring the Best Competition Examslip

‘This project report is a submission to GlobalGiving’s 2017 Fail Forward Contest, where organizations are asked to share a story of when they tried something new that didn’t go as planned and how they learned from it. Enjoy!’

In the year 2015, the Executive Director of the Initiative for Sound Education, Relationship & Health (ISERH) was the only person in charge of all the administrative works of the organization, including Aspiring the Best Competition (ABC) – through which teenagers are given scholarship to write Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) and school supplies. He was looking for funding/sponsorship for ISERH’s projects and at the same time looking for the strategies to make the ABC application form available to every teenager living and school in the State of Osun, Nigeria.

He failed to achieve the two missions consequent upon the fact that those who would have funded or donated towards the projects refused to do so, because he had no team. They saw him as a young man who was looking for a means to enrich himself. He couldn’t achieve the second mission as well, as a result of the unavailability of the Aspiring the Best Competition’s application forms in all the cities/towns across the state, aside Ilesa town.

Having realized the reasons for this failure, ISERH Executive Director learnt that he must look for like-minds to serve in the Administrative Team of the organization and as well design a better strategy of getting all teenagers within the state have unrestricted access to the ABC application form – hence, benefitting from ISERH’s scholarship and school supplies. He rolled out volunteers’ application on the directive of the ISERH Board of Trustees, and was successful to employ 11 brilliant professional like-minds. This formidable team worked tirelessly in bringing both human and financial resources to the organization.

Today, through the efforts of our ICT Director, ABC Application Form can be accessed anywhere on this planet via the ABC Exam Portal: http://abcexam.iserh.org/. Our recent success in becoming a permanent partner of GlobalGiving is a testimony of a collective efforts of ISERH’s Management Team. The past failure has brought us knowledge, experiences, opportunities, and widened our project’s reach.

We are convinced that we are at the verge of becoming an international entity to be reckoned with, in the nonprofits sector working on education, leadership development and health.

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