Gender Equality Nigeria Project #14588

Mentoring Challenge

by Idea Builders Initiative

Project Report | Jan 2, 2015
Mentoring Challenge Inspires Change

By Lucy Kanu | Director

Environmental Sanitation Exercise

Peer Mentors rounded up their final activities for 2014 and feedback forms collected to assess and recommend new ways to enrich the programme.

In the mentoring challenge, young peer Mentors are mobilized, trained and mandated to further step-down their experience and knowledge to secondary school girls, and also engage in community renewal. The Contenders in the challenge, alongside a team of volunteers train girls in areas including peer pressure, career planning, relating with parents, dealing with issues of domestic violence, molestation and rape, among other tasks.The Mentoring challenge is endorsed and supported the United States Embassy in Lagos.

Key Findings

Strong bonds between the peer mentors and students substantiated by interviews, photographs and focus group discussions
75% of young girls (in participating secondary schools) have grown from this Mentoring Challenge project to initiate and achieve successful pay-forward activities within their schools.

o 65% of them launched successful pay-forward initiatives –by sharing their experience with other classmates/family

o 10% launched successful pay-forward initiatives –by organizing mini-projects within their schools including hand-washing projects, litter collection, clearing of clogged gutters and cleaning of the school refectory.

98% percentage of young girls express satisfaction for having met their peer mentor through the project and accomplished milestones in their personal development
65% of the schools have initiated mentoring clubs to grow the reach and impact of the project.
More than 90% of all the peer mentors say that they would mentor again and would recommend mentoring to a friend/colleague. Their experience confirmed their expectation of a rewarding experience
Nine out of ten mentors feel that they emerged as better persons, increased patience, friendship, a feeling of effectiveness, new listening skills.
Peer Mentors were asked what they liked best in the Mentoring Challenge; virtually all could name a positive aspect of the experience.
100% of mentees engaged in diverse-categories of pay forward initiatives/activities.
100% of mentees name at least one problem they believe was improved due to the Mentoring Challenge cycle, and many cite more than one.
More than 60 external mentors/mentees/students and panel discussants participated in 2014 associated events [mentors, mentees, panel discussants, facilitators, university students, and mentoring walk participants in several locations.

Changes in the original staffing pattern for the project:

We had to employ the skills and services of some ad-hoc volunteers during the preparation and delivery of this programme, to complement the work of our staff.

Once again, Idea Builders Initiative and its Team say a great big 'Thank you' to our donors for supporting and encouraging us in our mission for the girls in our society.

Please invite your family and friends to donate and give us feedback on our reports so far to enable us improve and implement better strategies to achieve our Organizational Vision: A Society of Women Leading Lives of Choice.

Team Lead: Bolatito Puddicombe

Placards to Share the Message

Group Photo

Principal Addressing Students at the Symposium

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Oct 1, 2014
The Mentoring Challenge Quarterly Report 4

By Onwumere Andlyn | Programme Officer

The Mentoring Challenge Comes to an End…

In over ten schools, Peer mentors are being raised and Peer Mentoring Clubs are being inaugurated. Mentors have rounded up with their final sessions and surveys have been taken with respect to improving the programme and discovering better ways to help the girls. Mentors have also embarked on projects for the club to encourage young girls and impart a practical understanding on some of what they have been trained on. The girls have been advised to learn and grow with the spirit of oneness; empathy and mentoring to enable them pass on knowledge gained to their successors.

At the inauguration, leaders were selected to act as channels of communication between the Mentors and the girls.

The report contains pictures of mentors with the girls, girls during some o the sessions, the inauguration, project and survey conduction, mentors and school authorities, etc.

*Votes of thanks were given by the principals of the participating schools and emotional moments with tears from the girls were shared and they expressed gratitude for implementing and executing the programme and for having them in our thoughts…

After this hurdle, the coordinator of this programme will embark on a thorough evaluation of the programme in the different schools to measure its workability and impact in the lives of the girls.

The girls are looking forward to what happens next and would love mentors to visit occasionally in order to oversee the conduct of the programme. Nonetheless, more hands will be needed on deck to effectively supervise the girls in the various public secondary schools.

This can only be done continually for the girls with your support.

Once again, Idea Builders Initiative and its Team say a great big 'Thank you' to our donors for supporting and encouraging us in our mission for the girls in our society.

Please invite your family and friends to donate and give us feedback on our reports so far to enable us improve and implement better strategies to achieve our goal through this project - Empowering & Mentoring young girls.

Hand washing Project

Cleaning up 2

School authorities on project day

Metro Hand wash

Crafts..

Authorities

The Peer Mentoring Club

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Jul 1, 2014
The Mentoring Challenge Quarterly Report 3

By Andlyn Onwumere | Programme Officer

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