Mentoring Challenge

Since the first quarter of 2015, we at Idea Builders Initiative have been renewing the Commitment of support for the ‘contenders’ leading the charge in the various public schools. Two batches of peer mentors (contenders) in the challenge have undergone refresher capsule sessions with Idea Builders Women Leadership Council. 

Key Outcomes

• 5 additional Peer Mentors have been refreshed and energized to pursue further and achieve more for themselves as individuals and as peer mentors -substantiated by interviews, photographs and one-on-one discussions
• 100% of the third batch re-defined their expectations in furtherance of their respective pay-forward activities within their schools.

o   100% of the Contenders are re-energized and prepared to take calculated risks –‘to do something positive that scares you’

o   50% of the launched pay-forward mini projects have been completed.

• 100% percentage of contenders acknowledge that the Refresher Series was timely and adequate to get them back on track.
• 100% of mentees name at least one problem they believe was improved due to the Mentoring Challenge cycle, and many cite more than one.
• 100% mentors/mentees have participated in 2015 Mentoring Challenge Renewal series.

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Agricultural Science Project by Jacinta Uramah -A Mentoring Challenge Contender serving at Ebutte Elefun High School, Lagos Island, Lagos-NIGERIA 

Jacinta Uramah is holds an Agriculture Certification from the Obafemi Awolowo University, ile-ife, Osun State. Being an enterprising and zealous agriculturist, Jacinta is setting up Young Farmers’ Clubs (YFC) in public secondary schools in ile-ife central local government area.

She wants to transfer her skills, share her passion and pay-forward her experience in the mentoring programme having the firm belief that empowerment is key. She wants to “catch them young” –whilst in secondary schools - exposing them to alternative livelihood possibilities and how they could be relevant in the society. By engaging pupils in productive activities, she hopes to curb the distractions and excesses characteristic of adolescent exuberance.

Her project is targeting between 25 - 50 students studying agriculture by choice in the Senior Secondary classes of public schools –starting with Ebutte Elefun High School. Activities include workshops, inter-school green club essay competitions plus prizes for outstanding students and schools; examples of Agricultural projects include: classroom labs, broiler farms, layers farm, crop farms, piggery, snail farms, etc) which would be maintained by the school alongside the students in club.