The Human Rights Essay Award is an annual competition sponsored by the Academy to stimulate the production of scholarly work in international human rights law. The 2023 Essay Topic is “EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: CONFRONTING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION”. Winning essays – in English and in Spanish – will be published in […]
“Green Circle Conversation” – EPLF Fellows Begin their Civic Engagement Activity Online
As part of the fellow’s civic engagement activity during the fellowship, they started a Green Circle Conversation which seeks to deliberate on key critical issues in Nigerian politics and make recommendations on possible solutions. The first conversation was in August which took place on Twitter Space with fellows such as […]
ADOKIT Programme – UNICEF
UNICEF, in partnership with the University of Calabar (UNICAL) and Cross River State Action Committee on AIDS (CRSACA), put out the Adolescent Kits for Expression and Innovation Training with the sole aim of upskilling and collaborating with, Adolescent-focused organizations to implement the ADOKIT Programme in their coverage communities. The 4-day […]
Transformational Mentoring Programme (TMP) – Quarterly Review Meeting
TMP mentors’ quarterly review meeting was held on Thursday, September 8, 2022, via Zoom. The meeting was aimed at achieving three key objectives which include, measuring the number of sessions already conducted by each Mentor against the number of TMP Module facilitated, implementation of Mentees’ respective Leadership projects and the […]
Transformational Mentoring Programme (TMP) – School Sessions
It was exciting to have the programme activities continue at the respective schools’ premises where a greater percentage of attendance is often recorded, compared to the holiday sessions where parents/guardians had peculiar reasons why their children/wards cannot attend. Engagements with the Mentees commenced from the second week of resumption starting […]
Emerging Political Leaders Fellowship (EPLF) – September
The month of September started on a learning note for our fellows who are constantly gaining immense value from the critical knowledge derived from all the various modules and the introduction of a new such as; Running for Office and we introduced a new module on election management. The various […]
Leadership and Community Development (LCD) Programme – School Sessions
As schools resume new academic sessions in Cross River state, Our Leadership and Community Development Programme is back and better across 15 public secondary schools in 5 LGAs. Spotlight is on: MBEMBE COMPREHENSIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL OGADA II OBUBRA which began its sessions on Thursday 22/09/2022 while discussing the topic: VALUES […]
2022 International Youth Day
The 2022 International Youth Day (IYD) event was a memorable one as TBLF was presented with an Award – Young Trail Blazer organization in Human and Community Development in Cross River State. The event took place at the University of Calabar – UNICAL International Conference Centre, Calabar and was hosted […]
Vocational Skill Programme – Sponsored by Lafarge-Holcim
Monitoring by the LAFARGE Team, led by Brenda Effiom and TBLF Team led by Martha Lawrence was carried out through a visit to the training Centre on Friday, August 26, 2022. The aspects of assessment include spot checks on the trainees actively engaged in learning, taking note of beneficiaries’ weekly […]
Leadership and Community Development (LCD) Programme – Leadership/Community Project
Whilst the Programme is still ongoing in Public Secondary Schools across 5 LGAs, it was exceptional to see the determination of students in Government Secondary School – Bassan, Obubra LGA as they set out to implement their Leadership Project of “Building a School Assembly Stand”. The drive came in a […]
Leadership and Community Development (LCD) Programme – Quarterly Meeting
The first quarter review meeting was held on Friday, August 5, 2022 on Zoom. The virtual meeting was organized with the objectives of measuring the programme outcomes so far, deliberating on the holiday session plans, discussing the implementation of community Projects alongside weekly Assembly Sensitization by the trained students, how […]
Transformational Mentoring Programme (TMP) – Holiday Monitoring
In the course of the holiday period, evaluations were also carried-out to ascertain the level of process and impact made so far. Activities at West African People’s Institute (WAPI), Estate Secondary School, and Government Secondary School – State Housing were directly monitored by the Programmes Officer – Martha Lawrence. During […]
Transformational Mentoring Programme (TMP) – Holiday Sessions
The Transformational Mentoring Programme ran throughout the five weeks in August at various locations in both Calabar South and Calabar Municipal Local Government Areas of Cross River State. Holiday learning sessions expanded in terms of reach as it began in three schools, to six and then to nine schools. These […]
LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Our Leadership and Community Development (LCD) Programme is ongoing in Public Secondary Schools across selected Local Government Areas in Cross River State. We are pleased to see these young leaders express themselves with confidence and conviction. The LCD programme aims to build the leadership skills of youths aged 10-18 in […]
ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM
20 beneficiaries have been selected from 10 communities in Cross River State to participate and benefit from the Entrepreneurship Vocational skills program facilitated by The Bridge Leadership Foundation, through the corporate sponsorship of the Lafarge-Holcim CSR department. The skills training process provides beneficiaries opportunities to learn; ICT, Branding, shoe/bag making, […]